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The document discusses mushroom cultivation and provides information about edible mushroom species. It describes how to culture oyster mushrooms and the facilities needed. Steps for mushroom cultivation are outlined. Choosing appropriate mushroom species for different conditions is addressed.

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Edible Mushrooms 101 - Part 1

The document discusses mushroom cultivation and provides information about edible mushroom species. It describes how to culture oyster mushrooms and the facilities needed. Steps for mushroom cultivation are outlined. Choosing appropriate mushroom species for different conditions is addressed.

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Edible Mushroom and

Earthworm Culture

Robert Kluson
Ag/NR Extension Agent
UF/IFAS Sarasota County Extension
First, What Is The Largest Organism
From The Following List?
• Giant earthworm from Australia?

• Redwood tree from California?

• Mushroom from Oregon?


(honey mushroom)
Answer
• Honey Mushroom from Oregon
– the discovery of this giant Armillaria ostoyae in 1998
heralded a new record holder for the title of the
world's largest known organism, believed by most to
be the 110-foot- (33.5-meter-) long, 200-ton blue
whale.
– occupies some 2,384 acres (965 hectares) of soil in
Oregon's Blue Mountains
– outline of the giant fungus stretches 3.5 miles (5.6
kilometres) across, and it extends an average of three
feet (one metre) into the ground. It covers an area as
big as 1,665 football fields.
– based on its current growth rate, the fungus is
estimated to be 2,400 years old but could be as
ancient as 8,650 years
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000806/ai_n14338782/
Mushrooms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCJxzODZYc&NR=1
Amanita muscaria Boletus aureissimus

Collybia sp. Geastrum saccatum

http://www.nettally.com/annep/FloridaFungi/index.html
Edible Mushroom Examples

Oyster Mushroom Chanterelle “Yellow" Morel


(Pleurotus ostreatus) (Cantharellus cibarius) (Morchella esculenta)

Shitake Field mushroom


(Lentinula edodes) (Agaricus campestris)
Mushrooms 101

http://www.micro.siu.edu/microforhighschoolteachers/workshopteachers.pdf
Mushrooms 101

http://crookbiology.googlepages.com/L_Ch.31_fungi.pdf
Mushrooms
101

http://crookbiology.googlepages.com/
L_Ch.31_fungi.pdf
Mushrooms
101

http://crookbiology.googlepages.com/
L_Ch.31_fungi.pdf
Mushrooms
101

http://crookbiology.googlepages.com/
L_Ch.31_fungi.pdf
Mushrooms
101

http://crookbiology.googlepages.com/
L_Ch.31_fungi.pdf
Mushrooms 101
• Mushrooms are the fruiting
bodies of certain fungi—the
equivalent of the apple, not of the
tree
• The fungal organism which
produces the mushrooms you
encounter on your lawn or in the
forest is called a mycelium. It is
composed of hyphae, which are
"chains" of fungal cells (singular:
hypha).
http://americanmushrooms.com/basics.htm
Mushrooms
101

http://crookbiology.googlepages.com/
L_Ch.31_fungi.pdf
Mushroom Cultivation
• Completely different to growing green plants
• Do not contain chlorophyll & depend on a
substrate to decompose for their food
• Become familiar w/ life cycles of species of
interest for production
• Outside production is possible
• Inside production provides more continuous
fruiting but requires greater management

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/mushroom.pdf
Steps In
Mushroom
Cultivation

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/
PDF/mushroom.pdf
Mushroom Cultivation In The Garden

• Use creativity and imagination when planting


mushrooms in a garden
• Look for the "fundamentals," the necessities
such as available substrates, microhabitats,
sun, shade, wind, and humidity conditions
– organic waste materials = substrates
– tall plants = shade
– a misting sprinkler = humidity

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/mushroom.pdf
Choosing A Mushroom Species

• A mushroom cultivation kit is a handy way to


begin to understand the fungal life cycle
• Afterwards purchase spawn that will grow on
materials you have available
• design and test a system that duplicates the
conditions favorable to all stages of growth
• oyster (Pleurotus species) is a good choice
probably for most novices

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/mushroom.pdf
Oyster Mushroom Example

Gray Oyster Flamingo Oyster Golden Oyster

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/mushroom.pdf
Oyster Mushroom
Production at
E.C.H.O.
http://www.echonet.org/

Edible Mushroom Production Facility

Bag Culture Production


Oyster Mushroom
Production at
E.C.H.O.
http://www.echonet.org/

Edible Mushroom Production Facility


• wooden lattice shelving for mushroom
bags placement
• Open ventilation
• Shaded
• Not air conditioned
Oyster Mushroom
Production at
E.C.H.O.
http://www.echonet.org/

Edible Mushroom Spawning Facility

Jar of spawn
Oyster Mushroom
Production at
E.C.H.O.
http://www.echonet.org/

Transfer table (laminar flow hood) for sterile


mushroom spore inoculations of petrie
plates and spawn jars.
Blueprint for homemade version available
at:
http://www.angelfire.com/il/Toddshome/lamflohd.pdf

Refrigerator spawn incubator


Oyster Mushroom
Production at
E.C.H.O.
http://www.echonet.org/

Solar-heated substrate pasturization


unit (i.e., a used, gutted refrigerator)
Other Edible Mushrooms Spp
• Shitake
– are grown on logs, either
inside or outside. Inside,
they can also be grown
on compressed sawdust
Shiitake mushrooms
logs or in bottles or bags fruiting on sawdust.
• Morel
– possible to establish a
morel patch by using a
morel starter kit

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/mushroom.pdf
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/morel.html
Other Edible Mushrooms Spp
• Huitlacoche
– young, edible galls that form when
ears of maize are infected by the
basidiomycete Ustilago maydis

Huitlachoche mushrooms
• Paddy Straw mushroom fruiting on ear of corn.
– a high temperature mushroom
grown largely in tropical and
subtropical regions of Asia &
accounts for 16% of total
production of cultivated
mushrooms in the world

http://www.troygardens.org/huitlacocheproject.html
http://www.isms.biz/edibles.htm Volvariella volvacea
Know Your Mushrooms

• DO NOT EAT WILD MUSHROOMS


unless you are ABSOLUTELY sure
you have identified the mushroom
correctly and KNOW that it is edible.
• As to lawn damage by mushrooms,
they rarely cause landscape
problems. Most lawn mushrooms are Fairy ring
mushroom
fungi that feed on decomposing
grass clippings or mycorrhizal spp.

http://okeechobee.ifas.ufl.edu/News%20columns/Wild.Mushrooms.htm

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