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baby shiitake mushrooms

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These shiitakes are farm raised and harvested on protein-filled sterile sawdust logs that have been inoculated with shiitake spores. The individual logs can produce over 4 pounds of mushrooms during ...

bear's head mushrooms

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Botanically known as Hericium americanum, the bear’s head mushroom is North America’s only Hericium species with long spines and a branched, fruited body. This mushroom has only been documented east ...

black abalone mushrooms

Fruits & vegetables; Mushrooms and fungi

The black abalone mushroom's common vernacular names are Kuro Awabitake, fungo di abalone nero, and Champignon Ormeau Noir, and it is an oyster mushroom that is a member of the Pleurotaceae ...

black trumpet mushrooms

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Black trumpet mushrooms (scientific name Craterellus fallax) are an edible mushroom also known as Horn of Plenty and Trumpet of Death. Although related to the Chanterelle, black trumpet mushrooms ...

blazei mushrooms

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The blazei mushroom, Agaricus blazei Murrill, is also known as Himematsutake in Japan and was given the name Piedade mushroom, after the town where it was first discovered in Brazil. Other marketed ...

blue foot mushrooms

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The blue foot mushroom, AKA blewit and Pied bleu is not a true blue mushroom, like the Blue Entoloma, which is blue inside and out. Its scientific name is Lepista nuda and it is a member of the ...

Caesar's mushrooms

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True Amanita caesarea or Caesar’s mushrooms, are from Italy. There are two American cousins, Amanita hemibapha and Amanita jacksonii that are so similar they can only be identified under a ...

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