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.
Gills on Hymenium
Stipe is bare
Edibility: Choice
Cap is convex
Spore print is white 
Hymenium is free
Ecology is saprotrophic