No, pearl mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms are two different species.

The pearl mushroom, also known as the slippery mushroom, is named after the mucus on its surface that makes it slippery and tasty when eaten, and has been cultivated in the southern part of Liaoning Province since the mid-1970s, with the main producing areas of northern Hebei, Liaoning, and Heilongjiang.

The shiitake mushroom, originated in China, is the second largest mushroom in the world, and is also a valuable edible fungus that has long been famous in China. It has been cultivated in China for more than 800 years. Shiitake is also a famous medicinal mushroom in China. Pharmacists of all times have written about the medicinal properties and functions of shiitake mushrooms.

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Overview of Shiitake Mushroom Distribution: Shiitake Mushroom in China is mainly distributed in Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places. Artificial cultivation is almost all over the country.

The world's shiitake mushrooms are mainly distributed in an arc on the western side of the Pacific Ocean. It extends from Hokkaido in Japan in the north to Papua New Guinea in the south and to the foothills of the Dhaulagiri Mountains in Nepal in the west. In addition, shiitake variants are found along the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa, similar shiitake mushrooms are distributed in New Zealand, and they are also cultivated in Targonia, South America.

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