april 2010

STROPHARIA MELANOSPERMA

This is a mushroom from ISRAEL. Spores of it were sent to me and I cultured it with an altered PF substrate formula. Instead of brown rice powder, I used wheat grain powder. All the ratios were the same as in the standard PF formula. It is not a magic shroom but it is considered to be an edible. I couldn't get any spores from this mushroom. It doesn't grow normally with this tek, but it sure looks strange.