Hericium cirrhatum

Growing Procedure

Good breeding success of Maitake is achieved on a standard recipe for wood decomposers. Especially important is the structure of the substrate, it must be loose-fluffy and can breathe well. Use not only very fine, but also medium-fine sawdust, preferably from beech.

Aim for only single fruiting bodies on the substrate, better leave the culture only a few fruiting windows, ideally only pinpricks in places where primordial growth is already visible, instead of exposing them over a large area.

Do not let Hericium cirrhatum sit too long on the substrate, such fruiting bodies often taste bitter. For this reason, a rapid course of culture is advantageous.

Growing

Agar Culture Media: MEA
Cropping:
Containers for fruiting: Logs, tree stumps, indoor growing bags, fallen trees
Biological efficience: –
Substrates: Rye Berries, grain mix, Hardwood

Growing Characteristics

Secondary decomposer, white rot trigger

Natural Habitat

Hericium cirrhatum grows from August to November on the rotten wood of dead deciduous trees. It occurs on copper beech, birch and oak trees. The saprophytic fungus produces white rot on its substrate.

Deciduous trees, dead wood, preferably beech, birch, late summer to winter, very rarely also from June onwards

Gourmet

Hericium cirrhatum are considered very delicate when young, older specimens are occasionally described as bitter.

Flesh

whitish, yellowish, soft, tough when old, fleshy, brittle, yellowing when injured

Taste

mild

Smell

pleasant, similar to the sulfur porling

Nutritional content per 100g

other names

other names

Hericium Cirrhatum, Creolophus Cirrhatus, Creolophus Cirratus, Dorniger Stachelbart, Dorniger Stachelseitling