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Figure 216. Inoculated logs of Kuritake, Hypholoma
sublateritium, fruiting outdoors in a shaded location.
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Figure 217. Kuritake fruiting on supplemented alder
sawdustlchips.
Flavor, Preparation & Cooking: Excellent in stir fries or baked. Many of the recipes listed in this
book can incorporate Kuritake.
Comments: The cultivation of this mushroom was pioneered at the Mon Mushroom Institute in
Kiryu, Japan. Chestnut, oak or similar logs are inoculated with sawdust or plug spawn and partially
buried parallel to one another in a shady, moist location.
This mushroom should figure as one of the premier candidates for incorporation into a sustainable
model for myco-permaculture. It can be grown indoors on blocks of sterilized sawdust. Once these
blocks cease production, they can be buried outside for additional fruiting s.Another alternative is that
the expired fruiting blocks can be broken apart and the resident mycelium can be used as sawdust
spawn for implantation into stumps and logs.
Alexander H. Smith in Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats (1949) notes that some strains of this
species from Europe have been implicated in poisonings. I have seen no other reference to this phenomenon
in North America or Japan, where this mushroom has long been enjoyed as a favorite
edible. Nor have I heard of any recent reports that would suggest alarm.
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