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Lentinula novae-zelandiae, native NZ Shiitake mushroom Aotearoa New Zealand is a unique country, having been separated from 'Gondwana', the prehistoric supercontinent, for around 80 million years and now existing as an island nation surrounded by vast distances of open ocean. This has allowed for a very unique ecosystem of plants, animals and fungi to evolve here in near isolation for millennia, giving rise to an indigenous ecology unlike anywhere else on Earth. It is for thi