"We were visited by a Japanese mycologist who found a fungus on a pine heath outside Skelleftea 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 $1000. ![]() 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. ![]() "There will undoubtedly be a lot of interest in Sweden, and definitely in Japan once these discoveries become known there," says Henrik Sundberg, who conducted the study.
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