King stropharius is a large and adaptive edible species best suited for outdoor culture in the home garden. Indoor fruitings are possible but the King Stropharia requires an unsterile casing to stimulate mushroom development and is slow fruit. These difficulties are avoided by simply inoculating a garden compost pile.Click to learn more

Enoki This mushroom's sticky, convex to flat, reddish brown to tawny cap grows 1-2 inches across. Its white to yellowish white gills, which attach to the stalk, release white spores. The mushroom is available fresh or canned, the fresh mushroom being preferable. They have a fruity flavor and a crisp texture. The mushroom can be refrigerated for about one week.

Black Morel Mycorrhizal and saprobic at different points in its life cycle; found under hardwoods and conifers; known for associations with ash, as well as other trees at burn sites.

The morel grows abundantly in the two and sometimes three years immediately following a forest fire. These spots may be jealously guarded by mushroom pickers, as the mushrooms represent a cash crop.

Reishi Mostly a medicinal mushroom. Reishi is used as a daily tonic to maintain and improve good health, increasing longevity, in the treatment of cancer and resistance to and recovery from diseases.

It is rarely found in nature, and has been used as a herbal medicine for more than 4,000 years in traditional Chinese medicine, making it the oldest mushroom known to have been used in medicine.

Shiitake mushrooms are an edible species typically grown on the Shii tree in parts of Asia. Sometimes called the black forest mushroom.

This mushroom is native to China, and has been cultivated for over 1000 years. The first written record of shiitake cultivation comes from writings during the Sung Dynasty (960-1127 CE), but some documents record this strongly flavoured gourmet mushroom was being eaten in 199 CE.

Pink Oyster Substrates: Pasteurized straw, Hardwood chips and sawdust. Colonization / Fruiting Temperatures 75-85F/ 65-75F.

Gills are decurrent (descend down the stem) and attached and white to light yellow. The stem is short, often horizontal and emerging from wood. The spores form a white to lilac-gray print on dark media. The mycelia is white and grows rapidly.

Golden Oyster cultivation Difficulty: Easy Type: Edible Substrate: Pasteurized straw, hardwood chips and sawdust, various grains, newspaper and cardboard.

Gills are decurrent (descend down the stem) and attached and white to light yellow. The stem is short, often horizontal and emerging from wood. The spores form a white to lilac-gray print on dark media. The mycelia is white and grows rapidly.

Blue Oyster cultivation Difficulty: Easy Type: Edible Substrate: Pasteurized straw, hardwood chips and sawdust, various grains, newspaper and cardboard.

Gills are decurrent (descend down the stem) and attached and white to light blue. The stem is short, often horizontal and emerging from wood. The spores form a white to lilac-gray print on dark media. The mycelia is white and grows rapidly.

Lions Mane is a gourmet mushroom, which tastes something like lobster, is grown on the standard sawdust recipe. Unlike most mushrooms, this fungus does not possess gills. Instead, spores are produced on teeth that hang down like delicate icicles. This is an aggressive species that spontaneously forms primordia on malt agar and sawdust substrates but may be slow to colonize grain spawn.

King Tuber is a subtropical species of Pleurotus that forms a true sclerotium after several weeks of incubation on a variety of substrates. The sclerotium is intensely bitter when fresh becoming milder when dried. Rehydrated sclerotium can be used in medicinal teas or soups.

Mushrooms can be produced by planting freshly harvested sclerotia into damp peat or sand and incubating for 2-3 weeks. Mushrooms intended for eating should be harvested very early before the cap expands. This mushroom quickly becomes tough and inedible as it matures.

Portobello or button mushroom is one of the most widely cultivated mushrooms in the world. This Fungus is called many names across the world. You can get this mushroom in almost any grocery store worldwide and it is used it hundreds of dishes.

Button mushrooms are rich in vitamins and minerals. The button mushroom and its various forms (Crimini, Portobello, and Portobellini) are grown on compost. Straw, either alone or with horse manure.

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Honey fungus or Armillaria is a genus of parasitic fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs. It includes about 10 species formerly lumped together as A. mellea.

These mushrooms are long lived and form some of the largest living organisms in the world. As a forest pathogen, Armillaria can be very destructive. It is responsible for the "white rot" root disease (see below) of forests and is distinguished from Tricholoma (mycorrhizal) by this parasitic nature.

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