Agaricus, Agaric AgarikonGhariqoon (Unani)Ku Bai Tie  苦白蹄; A Li Hong  阿里红 (TCM) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 True ‘Larch Agaric’New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 AgaricKreutterbuch, Matthiolus, 1586 ‘Agaricus albus’Icones Plantarum Medcio-oeconomico, Vietz, 1800 Polyporus officinalis (Nees von Esenbeck,T.F.L., Plantae officinales, vol. 2, 1828-1833) Polyporus officinalisKoehler, F.E., Medizinal Pflanzen, vol. 4 (1890) Polyporus ignarius, probably the lesser, ‘Male’ type(Kops et al., J., Flora Batava, 1849) Polyporus fomentarius, possibly another of the lessertypes used (Koehler, F.E., Medizinal Pflanzen, 1890) Laricifomes officinalis (as Fomitopsis officinalis)(Photo by Steph Jarvis) (Wikimedia) AGARICUS1. White inner tissues.  2. Outer worthless part of the fungus. This is interesting as it appears to be a Ganoderma or Phellius species on the market in the early ‘s rather than the Traditional Laricifomes officinalis.(Squibb’s Atlas of the Official Drugs, Mansfield, 1919) 2 Different samples of Laricifomes officinalis (Ku Bai Tie) (Chengdu, 2016, 2017) Fomes fomentarius, probably also used as a lesser type. Photo by Adam, 2018 BUY AGARIC POWDER Botanical name: Laricifomes officinalis (syn. Fomitopsis officinalis, Fomes officinalis, Fomes fuscatus, Polyporus officianle, Agaricum officinale, A. alba, Boletus agaricum, B. officinale, B. laricis, B. purgans, Cladomeris officinalis, Piptoporus officinalis, Ungulina officinalis)Other species listed as sources of Agaric include Fomes fomentarius, Fomitopsis pinicola, Phellinus igniariusSources were…

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