Shiitake mushroom

Chinese black mushroom
Fresh Shiitake mushrooms

The shiitake mushroom, or simply called "shiitake"(椎茸) (Lentinus edodes or Lentinula edodes) is also known as Chinese black mushroom or black forest mushroom.[source?] It is also called "black mushroom".[1] It is an edible mushroom, which is typically grown on the tree, such as shii, kunugi and oak.[2]

There are two variant names. For high grades of shiitake is dōnggū (冬茹: どんこ) ("winter mushroom"). And another is huāgū ("flower mushroom," (香信: こうしん) which has a flower-like cracking pattern on the mushroom's upper surface).[1] Both are produced at colder temperatures.[source?] There are many cultivated varieties, which grow-up in a temperature at 7C - 26C, most cultivars like cooler tempertatures.[3]

Shiitake Mushroom Media

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Learn All About Black, or Shiitake, Mushrooms and How to Cook Them". The Spruce Eats. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  2. "日本農林種菌㈱キノコ栽培と種菌:しいたけの作り方". www.kinoko-nichino.com. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  3. "日本農林種菌㈱きのこ種菌:商品のご案内". www.kinoko-nichino.com. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
 
Dried Shiitake mushrooms