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The easiest mushroom to cultivate. Good for beginners.
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Grey Dove Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) |
Golden Oyster (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) |
Grow outdoors on logs or indoors on sawdust blocks. Delicious and also medicinal.
![]() Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) on sawdust block |
![]() Shiitake mushroom log © Photo by Keith Weller, courtesy USDA |
Easy to grow on woodchips outdoors.
Stropharia rugusoannulata
Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Also known as Hen-of-the-woods. Outdoors on logs or indoors on sawdust. Delicious and also medicinal.
![]() Maitake at base of tree. © Photo by Patrick Harvey |
![]() Maitake kit. Field and Forest Products |
Outdoors on logs or indoors on sawdust. Delicious and also medicinal.
![]() Lion's Mane in nature. |
![]() Lion’s Mane cultivated on sawdust. |
Highly esteemed medicinal mushroom. Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for over a thousand years. Can be grown on sawdust or on logs. Kits are available. Cultivation supplies and kits.
![]() Reishi or Língzh? Mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) cultivated on |
![]() Reishi kit antler form - Field and Forest Products kit. |
A very popular cultivated mushroom in Japan. Marketed in US as "butterscotch mushroom." Grow on sawdust blocks or logs.
Nameko Mushrooms (Pholiota nameko) on sawdust
© Photo by Ron Spinosa
Fruits under cool conditions. In Asia gown in jars under low light and high CO2 to produce long thin stems and minute caps. Very different appearance in nature. Grow on sawdust, paper and cardboard.
![]() Enokitake (Flamulina velutipes) grown in jars |
![]() Velvet Foot Mushroom (Flamulina velutipes) in nature |
Also marketed as Buna-shimeji in Japan. Substrate: Sawdust, logs, straw.
Brown Beech Mushroom (Hysizygus tessulatus). Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Also marketed in USA as “Chestnut Mushroom”. Substrate: Hardwood chips and sawdust, hardwood logs
The Pioppino Mushroom (Agrocybe aegerita) © Photo by Ramiro Barreiro
Shaped like a bowling pin, mostly stem, firm and meaty. Substrate: Hardwood sawdust, straw supplemented with cottonseed meal. Grown in jars in Asia. Excellent flavor.
![]() Royal Trumpet Mushroom. |
![]() King oyster mushrooms in a Spanish market. |