Mushrooms & fungi

Shiitake

Lentinula edodes

The dark-capped mushroom that built the modern speciality mushroom market. Cultivated in East Asia for a thousand years, now grown worldwide on hardwood sawdust.

Known for

Contains lentinan and eritadenine, and develops meaningful vitamin D when exposed to ultraviolet light. Deep umami makes it the most commercially established of the premium culinary species.

At GaiaTara

Being studied as a premium culinary species with established demand.

Latin name

Lentinula edodes

Group

Mushrooms & fungi

Grows in

Darkness · sterile incubation rooms

Status

In R&D

Traditional uses and research interest are described for information only. GaiaTara makes no claim that this organism treats, cures or prevents any condition.