Golden Needle Mushrooms have their own ID card.

The team of Yang Zhuliang of the Key Laboratory of East Asian Plant Diversity and Biometrics of Kunming Plant Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with domestic and foreign counterparts, studied specimens and strains of the European, East Asian and North American genus Of Winter Mushrooms and found that the golden needle mushrooms were actually a new species bred. The results were published
Journal.
"golden needle mushroom" is a small but slender handle of the white edible bacteria. In nature, this fungus likes low temperature, often in winter mushrooms, so also known as "winter mushrooms." In appearance, wild "winter mushrooms" and cultivated "golden mushrooms" are completely different. In fact, using the strains isolated from the individual mushrooms, scientists after a large number of domestication, hybridization, breeding and other processes, and finally obtained an important economic value of consumption of the "golden needle mushrooms."
the genus mushroom has important economic value. Some studies have been carried out on the species diversity of the genus and it has been found that there is a difference between the "golden needle mushrooms" distributed in East Asia and the woolly winter mushrooms originally described in Europe. However, due to the lack of research depth, the classification of East Asian "winter mushrooms" or "golden needle mushrooms" has not been solved.
based on morphological anatomy, multi-gene molecular system development and other analysis of evidence, found that the genus has a total of 12 species. Among them, there are 6 species in our country, which is the diversity center of this genus. At the same time, the study confirmed that the "golden needle mushroom" domesticated from east Asian "winter mushrooms" and the original description of Europe's hairy-legged golden mushrooms are two different species. To this end, the team gave the "winter mushroom" ("golden needle mushroom") a name - F. filiformis. At this point, the golden needle mushroom finally has its own "ID card." (Source: Guo Shuang, China Science Daily)