Shiitake Mushrooms

An edible eastern Asian mushroom (Lentinus edodes) having an aromatic, fleshy, golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible tough stipe.

Also called Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom; Also called Oriental black mushroom.

Lentinus edodes : also known as shiitake, oak mushroom. Lentinus edodes is largely produced in Japan, China and South Korea. Lentinus edodes accounts for 10% of world production of cultivated mushrooms.

[Japanese : shi, oak + take,  mushroom.]

Stipe: A supporting stalk or stem like structure, especially the stalk of a pistil, the petiole of a fern frond, or the stalk that supports the cap of a mushroom.