Shiitake
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Omphalotaceae |
| Genus: | Lentinula |
| Species: | L. edodes |
| Binomial name | |
| Lentinula edodes | |
| Lentinula edodes | |
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| Mycological characteristics | |
 | Gills on hymenium |
| Cap is convex |
| Hymenium is free |
| Stipe is bare |
| Spore print is white to buff |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
| Edibility is choice |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 香菇 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香菇 | ||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | xiānggū | ||||||
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| Vietnamese name | |||||||
| Vietnamese | nấm hương | ||||||
| Thai name | |||||||
| Thai | เห็ดหอม (hèt hŏm) | ||||||
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| Hangul | 표고 | ||||||
| Hanja | 蔈菰 | ||||||
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| Japanese name | |||||||
| Kanji | 椎茸 or 香蕈 | ||||||
| Hiragana | しいたけ | ||||||
The shiitake (/ʃɪˈtɑːkeɪ, ˌʃiːɪ-, -ki/; Japanese: [ɕiꜜːtake] ⓘ Chinese mushroom, black mushroom, Lentinula edodes or sometimes Lentinus edodes,) is an edible mushroom native to East Asia and mainland Southeast Asia, which is cultivated and consumed by humans around the globe. The earliest written records of their cultivation dates to 1209, during the Song dynasty in China.