Product Review

10g (0.35oz.) biologically dried mycelium on grain seeds, for indoor growing, ready to incubate directly in compost. Edible mushroom. Well known as the common button mushroom of commerce. Cap 5-12 broad, convex at first with incurved margin, becoming plane in age; surface dry, with light brown, usually innate scales over a pallid ground color; flesh thick, white, typically bruising pinkish-brown to orange brown but not changing color in KOH; odor and taste mild. Gills free, pinkish-brown, becoming purple-brown, finally blackish-brown. Stipe 2-5 cm tall, 1.5-2.5 cm thick, more or less equal to slightly bulbous at base; white bruising slowly brown, smooth; veil white, cottony-membranous, forming a medial to superior ring. Spores 6-8.5 x 4.5-6 ?m, elliptical, smooth. Spore print blackish-brown. Solitary, scattered to gregarious near manure piles, in grass or duff under conifers, especially Monterey cypress; fruiting all months of the year when moisture is available except mid-winter.