Cicada flower is a wonderful creature with the shape of "animal" and "plant".

Cicada flower is a wonderful creature with the shape of "animal" and "plant". The root is the larva of cicada, and the flower grows from the head of a single cicada larva, about one inch long, and branches and blossoms from the top. The pollen is milky yellow, which is simply "seed" and has the function of reproduction. The formation process is that the larvae of cicadas are infected and parasiticated by cordyceps before the emergence of cicadas. When the climate environment is suitable, the larvae absorb the nutrients of the insect body and transform into mycelium, and finally the insect body is completely occupied by the mycelium and only a body is left. When everything recovers, the mycelium gradually changes from the vegetative stage to the sexual stage with reproductive function of "cicada flower spores powder", and gradually branches from the top to "sprout" shaped like flowers, so it is called cicada flower.

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Is it cordicep mushroom?

[@jessieyaojun6267]

No, it is one type of cordyseps, when cicada dies and fell down on the ground because of rainy season the bacteria comes and becomes a cicada flower

[@kaushikacharjee2480]

@@jessieyaojun6267 ok
What's the use?its used for medical purposes or just edibles?

[@jessieyaojun6267]

@@kaushikacharjee2480 Yep Chinese medical purposes

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@@jessieyaojun6267 ok what type of diseases it cures?
In my local area jungle i can find it too i think
Cicada is available in our jungles too