Scientific name:
Lignosusrhinocerus Synonyms name: Lignosus rhinoceros, Lignosusrhinocerotic, Polyporusrhinocerus, Polystictusrhinocerus, Polyporussacer var. rhinocerotis, Fomesrhinocerus, Microporusrhinocerus, Scindalmarhinocerus |
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes Order: Polyporales Family: Polyporaceae Genus: Lignosus Species: L. rhinocerus |
This medicinal mushroom named as ‘Lac tygridis’ meaning tiger’s milk. In 1890, Sir Henry Nicholas Ridley, the Father of Malaya’s Rubber industry, stated that this fungus was an important medicinal mushroom used by local communities to cure the diseases. In the same year, Cooke scientifically registers and named it Fomesrhinocerotis based on a specimen found in Penang. Today, Tiger Milk Mushroom is commonly known its scientific name Lignosusrhinocerotis/rhinocerus.
The fungus was known as “Tiger’s milk” mushroom according to the folklore, as it was believed to emerge from the very spot where the milk of a prowling tigers has dropped on the ground. The underground fungus tuber or sclerotia will remain there for months, years or decades. The mushroom will only sprout out from the ground when nature calls. The underground sclerotium is the part with medicinal value. Unfortunately the presense of this sclerotium can only be noticed when the mushroom sprouts out from the ground. The existed of this mushroom in the earth is always solitary and this makes the collection of this wild Tiger’s milk mushroom difficult and limited
The cap of tiger milk mushroom are growing at the end of a stipe that arising from a district buried tuber or sclerotium. It has unique growth habit where their growth is solitary and can find only one stalk at time. This species classified as very precious and rare because of its uniqueness of the growth habit where distance between one stalk to another stalk not less than 5 km.
The fungus was known as “Tiger’s milk” mushroom according to the folklore, as it was believed to emerge from the very spot where the milk of a prowling tigers has dropped on the ground. The underground fungus tuber or sclerotia will remain there for months, years or decades. The mushroom will only sprout out from the ground when nature calls. The underground sclerotium is the part with medicinal value. Unfortunately the presense of this sclerotium can only be noticed when the mushroom sprouts out from the ground. The existed of this mushroom in the earth is always solitary and this makes the collection of this wild Tiger’s milk mushroom difficult and limited
The cap of tiger milk mushroom are growing at the end of a stipe that arising from a district buried tuber or sclerotium. It has unique growth habit where their growth is solitary and can find only one stalk at time. This species classified as very precious and rare because of its uniqueness of the growth habit where distance between one stalk to another stalk not less than 5 km.
An important medicinal mushroom found in Malaysia is Lignosus rhinoceros or more commonly known by the locals as "Tiger's Milk mushroom". Apart from being a tonic to maintain health, this fungus is known to have 15 other medicinal usages which includes the treatment of fever, cough, asthma, breast cancer, food poisoning, healing wounds, etc.
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Tiger Milk Mushroom has been used traditionally for over 400 years as a health tonic by the aborigines or native for its healing properties. Besides as a tonic to maintain health, this fungus was believed to have more than 15 medicinal usages according to the different tribes. This included treat lung and respiratory disease such as asthma, cough, fever, vomit, breast cancer, chronic hepatitis, gastric ulcer, food poisoning, healing wound and indigestion. Aborigines also boil it with ‘Tongkatali’ and used it as general tonic to strengthen the body.