Cultivated Hypsizygus marmoreus beech shimeji fruiting bodies in a tight cluster
Photo: Batholith, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsCultivated shimeji in Japan. Not grown with this profile.

Chef's line

Beech Shimeji: tight bouquet

Hypsizygus tessulatus, Brown beech hypsizygus

Paid culinary Profile, $2.99. About 40 days from start to fruit.

A commercial light schedule: very dim light to set many pins, then brighter light for a tight bouquet of dark, round caps on firm stems.

Stages

  1. Colonization 21 days
  2. Dim pinning 7 days
  3. Bright fruiting 12 days

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Light recipe

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