Generally  speaking,  shiitakes  may fall  into  winter  shiitake and summer shiitake  by  their picking seasons, into woodlog-grown mushroom that grows in the basswood and sawdust-grown  mushroom  that  grows  in  fungus  bed according to obtaining forms, and into flower shiitake, thick shiitake,   thin  shiitake  and  black-face  shiitake,   etc.   by  the  characteristics  of  appearance.
Commonly, there is a great difference in temperature between day and night in winter which does good to shiitake’s mycelium for it to absorb nutrient and activated substance then slowly grow, and agglomerate more full of natural distillate.At the same time, the cold winter still can restrain insect pest that thoroughly avoid chemical insectcide’s use, thus makes cultivated product safer and have excellent quality.Compared with sawdust-grown mushroom, woodlog-grown mushroom has more pure, dense and delicious flavor, but more dependence to wood resources. With different fungus kinds and physical characteristics of appearance, mushrooms have their different features, thus can satisfy different consumers’ needs for their different taste and fancy.
Woodlog-grown mushroom    Sawdust-grown Mushroom
Baixing’s woodlog-grown mushrooms are the shiitakes produced in winter. And they are cultivated following the Chinese traditional way of planting the fungus seeds directly into the natural basswood without any other cultivation materials. All the nutrition in shiitakes are completely absorbed from basswood. In the remote mountains, the shiitakes grow slowly. They are relatively rare with high value of nutrition, compact flesh, dense fragrance, good taste and traditional flavor.