
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 ...