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apiece. When these giants mature, with their huge surface areas of sporulating has idia, the spore cast
is phenomenal. King Stropharia's flesh is far denser when young than when the caps are fully expanded.
The stem is also edible although it is often permeated through with maggot holes, nearly
invisible in young specimens. In older specimens the huge stems often become hollow carcasses in
which so many fattened maggots have grown that the mushrooms spontaneously move from the rumblings
of these inhabitants.
Another preferred method is to inoculate a mulched bed of moistened wheat straw in the garden
andior amongst shrubbery. I have found that specimens grown on wheat straw in open settings are
relatively free of insect invasion compared to those grown on wood chips. For more information on
the incorporation of this mushroom into an integrated farm model, please refer to Chapter 5: The
Stametsian Model: Permaculture with a Mycological Twist on page 41.
See also Ingle (1988), Chilton (1986), Stamets & Chilton (1983) and Steineck (1973).
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