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the bean sprout's elegant cousin, growing wild in fat brown clumps but cultivated into pale spaghetti
means A long, slender, pale mushroom with a tiny cap, eaten in East Asian cooking and usually sold in tight white bundles.
from From Japanese 'enokitake,' literally 'hackberry mushroom' — 'enoki' is the hackberry (Celtis) tree, 'take' simply means mushroom, since the fungus was found growing on the stumps of such trees. English shortened it to just 'enoki,' dropping the mushroom and keeping the tree.
- light starved
- Grown in darkness to stay white and stringy
- wild form
- Looks nothing like the store version
- winter fungus
- Fruits in cold, even under snow
- survival secret
- Studied by NASA for space-grown food
enoki mushroom — flammulina velutipes, cultivated in japan since the 1950s, now the second most-consumed mushroom globally
enoki recall 2020 — fda outbreak linked to enoki mushrooms from multiple producers, 36 illnesses across 17 states from listeria