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Lentinus shiitake (J.Schröt.) Singer (1936) Lentinus tonkinensis Pat. (1890) Lentinus mellianus Lohwag (1918) The mushroom's Japanese name shiitake is a compound word composed of shii (椎, Castanopsis), for the tree Castanopsis cuspidata that provides the dead logs on which it is typically cultivated, and take (茸, "mushroom"). [5]
Shirataki is also called yam noodles or devil's tongue noodles, referring to the English names of the konjac plant. [2]: 157–12 . One variation is ito-konnyaku (糸こんにゃく "konjac strings"), which are generally thicker, darker, with a square cross section. It is preferred in the Kansai region. [citation needed]
The food made from the corm is known in English by its Japanese name, konnyaku. [5]: 595 [2] Two basic types of cake are made from konjac, white and black, as well as noodles, called shirataki. The corm of the konjac is often colloquially referred to as a yam, though it is not related to tubers of the family Dioscoreaceae.
Japanese popular mushrooms, clockwise from left, enokitake, buna-shimeji, bunapi-shimeji, king oyster mushroom and shiitake (front). Lyophyllum shimeji Bunapi (developed by Hokuto Corporation) Shimeji (Japanese: シメジ, 占地 or 湿地) is a group of edible mushrooms native to East Asia, but also found in northern Europe. [1]
Lingzhi, also known as reishi from its Japanese pronunciation, is the ancient "mushroom of immortality", revered for over 2,000 years (with some evidence suggesting use in Neolithic China 6,800 years ago). [8]
The Japanese names for Japan are Nihon (にほん ⓘ) and Nippon (にっぽん ⓘ). They are both written in Japanese using the kanji 日本. Since the third century, Chinese called the people of the Japanese archipelago something like "ˀWâ" (倭), which can also mean "dwarf" or "submissive".
The article states that this mushroom is "generally known in the English-speaking world by its Japanese name, shiitake", and uses the Oxford English Dictionary as the source of this claim. However the Oxford English Dictionary merely gives a simple one sentence definition for the word, there is nothing that says it is "generally known in the ...
In Japanese, the mushroom is known as enoki-take or enoki-dake, both meaning "hackberry mushroom". This is because it is often found growing at the base of hackberry (enoki) trees. In Mandarin Chinese, the mushroom is called jīnzhēngū (金針菇 "gold needle mushroom") or jīngū (金 菇 "gold mushroom").