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Any good edible/medicinal mushrooms that thrive in Pine?


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I will have a bunch of eastern white pine chips and stump grindings soon, and I don't want to grow more stink horns and lepiotas if I can help it. Italian oyster and Nameko are 2 readily available options I know of. Sparassis crispa and Neolentinus lepideus might also work. Any others including wild found mushrooms that would be good to try to grow on EWP? I wonder if there are any morels that like pine? 

If I don't forget, I might light some fires near these pine stumps to see what mushrooms naturally pop up from that. In the past a burn pile near a tulip poplar triggered some puffballs, maybe deer truffles or something to appear in abundance, but that was before I took a liking to learning about fungus.

If anyone has some good edible mushrooms that grow on eastern white pine wood, even mycorrhizal mushrooms since I still have a few pines around, I would like some spores. I already have suillus appear occasionally, but they aren't that great. Right now I'm searching the mushroom expert website.

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Lots of experience with the wood chipper on my property. But the dominant species that I chip are aspen with a bit of birch, red maple and basswood and about 10% Balsam Fir.

Filling low spots in trails with these chips. Wine caps definitely grow. Also Deer Mushroom, Lobster mushroom and occasionally porcini grow from these chips. Lots of other toxic looking LBM's show up within 1-2 years.

Spruce or fir dominant piles never seem to grow anything desirable. I suspect white pine will be the same.

The only pine associated mushrooms that I find are mycorrhizal with living trees:  Suillus americanus (white pine)and Suillus luteus (Mugo Pine) Suillus brevipes (Jack Pine)

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