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Shiitake

Shiitake Mushroom

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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
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Stipe is bare
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Edibility: Choice
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Cap is convex

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Spore print is white 
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Hymenium is free
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Ecology is saprotrophic 
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