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  hed hima

 

Thailand

Snow-white mushrooms, known in Thai as hed hima, literally ‘snow fungus’, and in English called White Beech Mushrooms.

 

They are a species of white mushroom in the shimeji group, i.e. a group of edible mushrooms native to East Asia, and specially developed in Japan from the Brown Beech Mushroom.

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