It seems that the chestnut mushrooms we eat here in the UK are not true chestnut mushrooms.
The real chestnut mushrooms (pholiota adiposa) have been eaten and enjoyed for centuries in Japan but they are a different species. Most of the mushrooms we eat here are of the species, Agaricus bisporus. This covers button mushrooms, the larger open ones, cremini (sometimes marketed as chestnut), and portobello. All of these are the same species of mushroom at different stages of maturity.
So what I am now growing is a portobello mushroom! (You notice how I have restaked my claim.) Six inches across and growing.
2 comments:
You're getting to be a mushroom expert! And wow, even the smaller one is getting big, big, BIG!
I've seen portobellos as large as a small plate, so yours could have a ways to go.
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