Fungi

Appears in
A Cook’s Guide to Chinese Vegetables
A Cook’s Guide to Chinese Vegetables

By Martha Dahlen

Published 1992

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Each botanical name is a bi-directional hyperlink. Touch a botanical name, and you will be taken to the section describing that fruit. Touching the botanical name term in that section returns you to this table.
Botanical Name Common Name Cantonese Pronunciation
Agaricus campestris Button or field mushrooms Yeung kwun
Auricularia spp. Wood ear mushrooms Wun yee
Lentinus edodes Winter mushrooms Doeng gwu
Tremella fuciformis Berk. Silver wood ear mushrooms Ngun yee
Volvaria esculenta Straw mushrooms Cho gwu