shiitake-edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe.Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Lentinus edodes, Oriental black mushroom, shiitake mushroom.hiitake-edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe.
Sumatra (Sumatera) World's sixth largest island, in w Indonesia. The largest cities (pop. 1990) are Medan (1,685,972), Palembang (1,084,483), and Padang (477,344). Sumatra's w coast is rugged and mountainous, the Barisan Mountains rising to 3810m (12,500ft), and nearly 60% of the lowland area is jungle.
While the whole of Sumatra is part of Indonesia, the island of Borneo is divided into federal states of Malaysia (Sarawak and Sabah) and provinces of Indonesia (Kalimantan), and is partly comprised of the independent sultanate of Brunei (Kaplan & Rogers 1994).