Mushroom Biology

Fruiting Edible Mushrooms Indoors

Fruiting Edible Mushrooms Indoors

Fruiting Edible Mushrooms Indoors for large yields can be difficult.  The biggest problem  is keeping the newly emerging mushroom moist and away from carbon dioxide.  If you ever bought a mushroom brick or loaf from a mail order or super market, your yield can be small if the brink is not kept in the correct [...]


Growing Your Own Oyster Mushrooms at Home – Video

Growing Your Own Oyster Mushrooms at Home  - Video

Growing Oyster Mushrooms at home is easy and fun to do.  This video shows how to use mushrooms from the grocery store for propagation  and grow them yourself in your kitchen.  The methods described in the video use the following materials. Brown paper lunch bags Hydrogen Peroxide (3% solution  It needs to be diluted to 0.3%) [...]


Lingzhi Mushroom – Reishi Mushroom – Ling Zhi

Lingzhi Mushroom - Reishi Mushroom - Ling Zhi

Reishi mushroom  removes toxins in your body.  This causes your immune system to be boosted, or should it be said that the immune system does not have to fight off as much anymore.  Reishi mushroom consumed as a tea or as power dislodges toxins in your body and is removed by the blood stream.  After 10 [...]


Huiltacoche – Cuitlacoche – Corn Smut – Ustilago maydis

Huiltacoche - Cuitlacoche - Corn Smut - Ustilago maydis

 Huiltacoche, Cuitlacoche, Ustilago maydis and Corn Smut are all the same thing.  Well, it gets worse, there are the other synonyms for Corn Smut….and then it’s food time! Caeoma zeae Lycoperdon zeae Uredo maydis Uredo segetum zeae-maydis Uredo zeae Uredo zeae-maydis Ustilago carbo-maydis Ustilago mays-zeae Ustilago segetum mays-zeae Ustilago zeae Ustilago zeae-maydis All of these are [...]