The shiitake (listen (helpÂ·info) , species Lentinula edodes) is an edible mushroom native to East Asia, which is cultivated and consumed in many Asian countries.It is considered a medicinal mushroom in some forms of traditional medicine.he mushroom's Japanese name shiitake (kanji: æ¤è¸) is composed of shii, the name of the tree Castanopsis cuspidata that provides the dead logs on which it is typically cultivated, and take meaning mushroom. The specific epithet edodes is derived from the Latin word for edible.
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. Sullivan's Island is a town and island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, with a population of 1,791 at the 2010 census. The town is part of the Charleston metropolitan area.
In 2006, Sullivan's Island made waves and national headlines when it became the first municipality in South Carolina to ban smoking in all public places, and today, the island is a collection of vacation rental homes and small businesses that cater to their seasonal vacationing or day-tripping clientele.