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  1. I've never seen any spawn for this mushroom for sale.  Since it grows on dead wood, it might be relatively easy to culture; but you would need spores at least to grow it.  It is pretty common here in the Pacific Northwest, but not so much in the Midwest.  A good source of location information is iNaturalist, which shows a fair number of locations in Wisconsin, but not much in the rest of the Midwest.  If you live anywhere near a location where it is found, you could look for it in the fall and collect specimens.  I've found it growing on rather skinny dead branches; so it would be possible to cut off a piece of wood with growth on it and use that to start a culture.

  2. It will grow outside if the environment and temperature are suitable.  Transplanting the mycelium in an indoor kit is no different than planting the various types of spawn available for starting mushroom beds or logs.  It probably will not work as well as the commercial spawn because the density of the hyphae in the spawn is a lot higher than the density in transplanted mycelium.

  3. Another possibility for the buttons is Boletus fibrillosus.  I find this one (rarely) at lower elevations in a Douglas-Fir, Western Hemlock forest.  As indicated by its genus name, it also has a felty cap and it is part of the B. edulis group.  I only find the B. edulis look-alike at higher elevations.

    I don't know of any guides that list boletes that are poisonous, probably because there are less common species that no one has tested yet.

  4. As discussed in your other post, one possibility for these buttons is Boletus fibrillosus.  I find this one (rarely) at lower elevations in a Douglas-Fir, Western Hemlock forest.  As indicated by its genus name, it has a felty cap and it is part of the B. edulis group.  I only find B. edulis at higher elevations.

  5. Your floor must be damp to grow mushrooms; this is something that will need to be fixed.  But you likely have a harvest of oyster mushrooms.  Long ago, some of the first oyster mushrooms that I found were growing out of the plywood floor of my old VW minibus.

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