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Black poplar mushroom can be cultivated on stumps and logs inoculated with plug or grain spawn. Wood of poplar, willow, maple, cottonwood and other hardwoods is appropriate for cultivation.
Black poplar mushroom has a nutty flavor and a crunchy texture which make it a popular edible and medicinal mushroom.
Mushrooms should be picked before the veil breaks in this way also their shelf life is prolonged. Conifer wood is not suitable for cultivation.
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Growth parameters for black poplar mushrooms (Agrocybe aegerita)
| Substrate colonization | |
| temperature | 21 - 27 oC optimal, slower at lower temperatures |
| light | not needed |
| duration | 6 - 12 months (depends of the wood type used) |
| Primordia formation | |
| temperature | 10 – 16 oC, strain dependent |
| relative humidity | 95 - 100 % |
| duration | 7 - 14 dni |
| light | diffuse light necessary |
| Mushroom formation | |
| temperature | 13 – 18 oC, strain dependent |
| relative humidity | 90 - 95 % |
| duration | 4 - 6 days |
| light | necessary (no direct sunlight!) |
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