Fungi > Division Basidiomycota > Class Agaricomycetes > Order Agaricales > Family Omphalotaceae.
The Lentinula genus has 10 species including Lentinula edodes the Shiitake mushroom.
Lentinula edodes grows in clusters on dead wood or trees.
Fruiting bodies are on a white then brown fibrous stem up to 8 cm high.
Caps, also white becoming brown can be up to 15 cm across.
The edge of the convex cap rolls under.
The white to cream gills run up to the stem but are not attached to it.
Spores are white.
J.F.
