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Japan firm claims success in artificial cultivation of low-cost, matsutake-like mushroom

Business Oct 14, 2018

Japan firm claims success in artificial cultivation of low-cost, matsutake-like mushroom

A fertilizer-maker in western Japan has claimed success in artificially cultivating bakamatsutake mushrooms — a species related to the highly prized matsutake mushroom, with a similar taste and flavor. Once mass production of bakamatsutake, whose scientific name is Tricholoma bakamatsutake, is ready, consumers will be ...

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