The Agrocybe aegerita species sometimes referred to as the brown cap mushroom, is a small white-rot fungi looking very similar to a button mushroom, but with a brown cap. Sometimes confused with poisonous varieties within the genus makes these mushrooms deadly to pick in the wild but if properly identified provide a great taste raw or cooked.
The Swordbelt strain is said to taste like bacon. How could you need a anymore to be sold on this culture? The A. aegerita Swordbelt, grows large, providing constantly big fruitbodies, brown caps getting darker toward the center and growing in large clusters. the provided fruitbodies are of a sterotypical 'mushroom' shape and have gills that stop at the thick stem. This is another mushroom with a median fruiting temperature of 50-65 °F (10-18 °C) and grown on sawdust or straw (alder, poplar or other hardwood and conifers) it is paired well with a Shiitake grow. There is downside to this tasty strain however, it happens to be difficult to fruit and rather picky about its climate, however if one is able to fruit that it provides decent yields of around 60% biological efficiency (biological efficiency, or BE is a measure of how many fruit bodies, by weight, a growing block produces compared to the raw dry weight of the substrate). This isn't a strain for beginners or growers looking for a very variable temperature mushroom, but when grown it is very rewarding.Anyone interested in growing this particular A. aegerita strain is invited to contact Aloha Medicinals Inc. in order to purchase mushroom spawn. Directions on how to fruit this mushroom may be found here.
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