Subject: Maitake - again

From: [email-masked]
Date: 7 Dec 1994 09:56:14 -0800

I am truly amazed at how much misinformation there is
floating around one little topic such as Maitake.  One of the
best discussions I've seen is in Paul Stamets' book, "Growing
Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms"  Maitake is treated as being
Grifola frondosa (a.k.a. Polyporus frondosus).  Other sources
indicate that Grifola frondosa occurs in both North America
and in eastern Asia.  A totally different species, which
nobody seriously claims to be synonymous, is Grifola
umbellata (a.k.a. Polyporus umbellatus), which also occurs in
both North America and eastern Asia.  Paul has a discussion
on it too.