Cultivation Difficulty: Moderate
Type: Edible/Medicinal
Substrate: Hardwood chips and sawdust, pasturized straw, grass seed
Colonization/Fruiting Temperatures: 80-95F/75-90F
Available In: Culture Syringe, Culture Slant
A subtropical species of Pleurotus that forms a true sclerotium after several weeks of incubation on a variety of substrates. The sclerotium is intensely bitter when fresh becoming milder when dried. Rehydrated sclerotium can be used in medicinal teas or soups.
Mushrooms can be produced by planting freshly harvested sclerotia into damp peat or sand and incubating for 2-3 weeks. Mushrooms intended for eating should be harvested very early before the cap expands. This mushroom quickly becomes tough and inedible as it matures.
Top image shows Pleurotus tuberregium fruiting from the Sclerotia Formula Myco Environment Bag(TM).
Also see our Sclerotia Tuber Oyster Mushroom Grow Kits.
