KNOW YOUR MUSHROOM

Every species, properly understood

History, biology, benefits and value — the mushrooms we grow, extract and teach, explained the way a grower needs them explained.

Edible Mushrooms

The food crops — grown for the plate and the market.

Pleurotus ostreatus

The grower's gateway — fast, forgiving, delicious

Agaricus bisporus

The world's favourite mushroom

Calocybe indica

India's own summer mushroom

Lentinula edodes

A thousand years of cultivation, one unmistakable flavour

The functional species — grown for extracts, teas and wellness.

Ganoderma lucidum

The 'mushroom of immortality' of classical Asia

Cordyceps militaris

The high-altitude legend, now farmed in the lab

Hericium erinaceus

The cascading white mushroom of focus

Inonotus obliquus

The birch forest's slow-grown antioxidant