Relationship between Showy Mushroom and Flat Mushroom: Showy Mushroom and Flat Mushroom both belong to the fungus world, while Showy Mushroom is a kind of Flat Mushroom. The difference is as follows:

1, the characteristics are different

Show mushroom: the entity is solitary or clustered, the cap is fan-shaped, kidney-shaped, round, flat hemispherical, and then gradually spreading, the base is not concave.

Plain Mushroom: growth spreading, no "yellow tip", very easy to form the fungus skin after growing all over the slanting surface, the edge of the cap is more rounded, the fungus skin is tighter and harder.

2. Different colors

Shitake mushroom: grayish white, grayish brown, smooth surface, medium thickness of flesh.

Flat Mushroom: color is off-white, light gray, tile gray, greenish gray, gray to dark gray.

Shitake mushrooms are shown in the picture:

Flat mushrooms are shown in the picture:

3. Different growing environments

Shitake mushrooms: they need carbon, nitrogen, and all kinds of mineral nutrients, etc. for their growth and development.

Flat mushroom: growth and development can use a lot of nutrients, woody plant residues and fibrous plant residues can be used.

4. Different origins

Shitake mushroom: originated in Chamo province, southern India.

Flat Mushroom: originated in Italy where wood chip cultivation was first studied, and was widely planted in the late 1940s.

5. Distribution varies

Shitake mushroom: now distributed in Guangdong, Fujian, Shanxi, Jilin and other provinces are cultivated.

Flat mushroom: now distributed in Changbai Mountain forest area began to use maple and other broad-leaved trees inverted wood cultivation.