Monster of suburbia – massive Pleurotus ostreatus find (cloned)
Driving through a random street in the suburbs in the foothills of the Dandenongs and we spotted a monster! What a massive and amazing creature! Two massive fruitbodies of a…
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February King Stropharia mayhem!!
We got a great tip from our friend Claire about a large stand of King Stropharia fruiting on the plateau behind the Dandenongs on mass. Upon arriving at the location…
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Agaricus bitorquis – the pavement mushroom
Agaricus bitorquis Often called the pavement mushroom or the conifer agaricus, this mushroom is actually quite closely related to your standard, typical supermarket button mushroom (see also Agaricus bernardii). It…
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Lentinula lateritia – the Australian native Shiitake
Davenwolf Dagger has done it again – this time managing to not only find the elusive native Aussie Shiitake species – Lentinula lateritia (which we recently confirmed matched phylogenetic type…
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King Stropharia spawn bags ready to order.
Hi everyone we are pleased to announce that we have added to King Stropharia spawn bags to our inventory with another 10 very close to also being ready – so…
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Successful outdoor fruiting of Lepista sordida – the lilac blewit
Easter Sunday we were excited to see a nice first flush of Lepista sordida (confirmed via DNA) – a small tester bag of colonised rye grass seed and sawdust innoculated…
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Website ordering problems resolved
[protected]Hi everyone – we are pleased to announce that the problems with the ordering page on our website have been resolved. Thanks for your patience. We aimed to reopen on…
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Feral blue oyster fruited on wheatstraw
The first flush from our tester grows of the feral/wild-cloned Selby oyster strain on wheat straw. Nice and blue! We are awaiting DNA sequencing of this mushroom before making…
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Feral Blue Oysters – A Selby surprise
Walking my dog the other morning we came upon a surprise – a massive bunch of Blue Oysters (possibly Pleurotus ostreatus var. columbinus) growing off mulch pushed behind a treated pine…
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Lepista sordida (the lilac blewit)
An interesting petite native Lepista that we recently confirmed – via DNA extraction and sequencing – to be Lepista sordida sourced from a wild collection from New South Wales, this…
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King Stropharia are finally on their way!
Well its taken a while and the last six months have been pretty crazy with the arrival of our new little one, but we now have 35 spawn bags of…
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Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda)
Selby Shroom’s favourite mushroom – the wood blewit is an magnificent looking species with lilac gills, a meaty mottled lilac stem, a strong margin and a viscid lilac to brown cap….
