Mushrooms and fungi

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portobellini mushrooms

Fruits & vegetables; Mushrooms and fungi

The Portabellini mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, is also known as Agaric cultivé, Champignon de Paris, and Cultivated Mushroom. It is a common mushroom that can be simply defined as a larger, earthier ...

puffball mushrooms

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Puffball mushrooms, Calvatia gigantea, are the only mushrooms that contain all of its spores inside its fruiting body. All members of the true puffball species are edible only when young with a white ...

shiitake mushrooms

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Shiitake mushrooms are one of the handful of mushrooms that can be cultivated on a commercial scale. They are cultivated using trees or wood as a growing medium. Both natural log and sawdust log ...

shirakami awabitake mushrooms

Fruits & vegetables; Mushrooms and fungi

The shirakami awabitake mushroom, also known as the Daiotake is a hybrid of the King Trumpet mushroom (Pleurotus eryngii) and Chinese Abalone mushroom (Pleurotus nebrodensis) also known as ...

St. George mushrooms

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The St. George mushroom's genus name Calocybe gambosa, translates to "pertty head". One of its original given names, Agaricus gambosus, by Elias Magnus Fries, was a Latin epithet for club foot, a ...

white button mushrooms

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The white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, is also known as Agaric cultivé, Champignon de Paris, and Cultivated mushroom. It is a the most common mushroom that is also happens to be the same ...

white chanterelle mushrooms

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White Chantrelle mushrooms are classified as Cantharellus subalbidus, whereas the more common gold Chantrelles are classified as Cantharellus cibarius. One characteristic of Chantrelle mushrooms that ...