International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

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2000, Volume2

Issue 3

88 pages

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Alice W. Chen
Specialty Mushrooms, 1730 Penfield Rd., No.41, Penfield, NY 14526, USA

Paul Stamets
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Fungi Perfecti Research Laboratories, SE 50 Nelson Rd., Kamilche Pt., WA 98584, USA

Robert B. Cooper
Rochester Museum and Science Center, Cumming Nature Center, Naples, NY, USA

Nian Lai Huang
Saming Mycological Institute, Saming, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China

Sheng-Hua Han
Hua-Dan Mushrooms, Qing Yuan, Zhejiang Province, China

Grifola frondosa (Dicks.: Fr.) S. F. Gray, best known as maitake, is an important medicinal and a choice edible mushroom. As a white-rot fungus, causing butt rot, the mushroom is associated primarily with deciduous forests in Northern temperate regions in North America, Europe, and countries such as Japan and China. The mushroom can also be found at high elevations with temperate climate in subtropics. Characteristics of habitats (in terms of distribution, altitude, major host-substrate tree species, soil, and climatic factors including lighting, temperature, and relative humidity); ecological characterization of the mushroom; life history (morphogenesis in nature); and morphological studies of the fruiting body are described. Of special interest are recent reports of possible sclerotia-producing strains in G. frondosa in North America and China. A description of G. frondosa sclerotia is given. These rare strains could be important, as G. frondosa sclerotia can be valuable in medicinal use.

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