This is not the first time that a Japanese gourmet mushroom has been found in northern Scandinavia. “Using molecular techniques, we’ve now been able to show that this northern Swedish fungus is identical to the Japanese one.” “We were visited by a Japanese mycologist who found a fungus on a pine heath outside Skellefteå which she thought was similar to hon-shimeji,” says Henrik Sundberg, a student at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. ![]() ![]() Then, two years ago, came indications that the species also grows in Sweden. In Japan, the hon-shimeji - or “true shimeji” - is a delicacy, and so rare that a kilo of Japanese mushrooms of perfect quality can fetch as much as SEK 8,000 (800 Euro). One of them is Lyophyllum shimeji, previously believed to grow only in the Far East. ![]() Lyophyllum is a family of many different species of fungi.
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