Shiitake (shiitake - 椎茸 or シイタケ)

Shiitake is an Asian cultivated mushroom. Japanese use it in a lot of dishes, especially nabe (pot-eau-feu). As a decoration, two slits are often cut in the cap to form a white cross.

 

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Shiitake mushrooms
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Shiitake muschurom with a cross decoration

 

 

 

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