Shiitake

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]

Chinese black mushroom

Fresh Shiitake mushrooms

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 temperatures.^[3]