Shiitake

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Fungi
Agaricomycetes
Marasmiaceae
Lentinula
L. edodes
Agaricales

Description

The Shiitake mushroom, also known as the Black Forest mushroom and Golden Oak mushroom, is a saprotrohic mushroom that grows on hard woods. The cap is brown to dark brown and grows up to 6 centimeters in diameter. The stipe is light brown and grows 3 to 6 centimeters tall and 1 to 2.5 centimeters in diameter. The gills are slightly off-white and the spore print is white to buff.

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Gills on Hymenium

Stipe is bare

Edibility: Choice

Cap is convex

Spore print is white 

Hymenium is free

Ecology is saprotrophic 

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