Shiitake Lentinula edodes fruiting bodies with thick brown caps
Photo: Batholith, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsShiitake. Not grown with this profile.

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Shiitake: thick winter cap (donko)

Lentinula edodes, Cold-tolerant shiitake

Paid culinary Profile, $2.99. About 84 days from start to fruit.

Slow, cool fruiting for the thick, rounded cap that dried-shiitake buyers pay the most for. Picked while the edge is still curled in.

Stages

  1. Colonization 42 days
  2. Browning / skin 21 days
  3. Cold shock (off-device) 1 days
  4. Cool pinning 6 days
  5. Slow cool caps 14 days

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