Reishi Mushroom

Category:Materials
==Statistics==
==Other Uses==
==Synthesis Recipes==
==Used in Recipes==
==Desynthesis Recipes==
==Obtained from Desynthesis==
==How to Obtain==
===Gardening===
===Chocobo Digging===
Zone 	Rarity
Batallia Downs 	Very Rare
Jugner Forest (S)	Very Rare
Rolanberry Fields	Very Rare
Yhoator Jungle 	Very Rare
Yuhtunga Jungle 	Very Rare
 	
===Harvesting===
Zone 	Rarity
Yhoator Jungle	Very Rare
===Dropped From===
Name 	Level	Zone
Ellyllon (NM) 	66 	Boyahda Tree
Ellyllon (NM) 	 	Nyzul Isle
Ironclad Executioner (NM)	 	Abyssea - Vunkerl
Ironclad Executioner (NM)	 	
===Campaign Unions===
:Obtained randomly through lot in Campaign Unions
:*Windurst Waters (S)
:*Bastok Markets (S)
===Monster Rearing===
==Historical Background==
The Reishi Mushroom is the Japanese name for a mushroom that is known by quite a few names. It's Chinese name is Língzhī; and in Korean: yeongji. Reishi is one form of the mushroom Ganoderma lucidum, and its close relative Ganoderma tsugae, which grows in the northern Eastern Hemlock forests. These two species of bracket fungus have a worldwide distribution in both tropical and temperate geographical regions, including North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, growing as a parasite on a wide variety of trees. Ganoderma lucidum enjoys special veneration in Asia, where it has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as a herbal medicine for more than 4,000 years, making it one of the oldest mushrooms known to have been used in medicine. Similar species of Ganoderma have been found growing in the Amazon.
The word lingzhi, in Chinese, means "herb of spiritual potency" and has also been described as "mushroom of immortality". Because of its presumed health benefits and apparent absence of side-effects, it has attained a reputation in the East as the ultimate herbal substance.