Maitake is her Japanese name and means "mushroom dance", probably referring to the fruitful body, made up of gray-gray hats, fan-shaped and superimposed, which, like a butterfly cloud, seems to dance when it is moved by the wind . In Japan, it has always been considered the "king of mushrooms", so that in feudal times, the rich lords were willing to pay silver to those who found it in the forest, even to possess such a beneficial and precious fungus.
Fruit-bearing bodies grow to superimposed and forming a "group". The stems of Maitake blend with each other at the base of beech, oak or other logs: a legend tells that the mushroom prefers those tree trunks where lightning has created a slit. This fungus is also highly appreciated for its excellent taste, and it is the fact that mushroom seekers have always kept their places secretly secretly seized for harvesting. Its extreme sensitivity has been a challenge for farmers for years, but since the 1980s Maitake's cultivation has been widespread, making it available to anyone who likes to delight her delicacy or wishes to benefit from her virtues.
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