"Black Poplar, Pioppino, Yanagi-matsutake, Zhuzhuang-Tiantougu" Pure mushroom culture on agar - medium Pioppino is a delicious edible mushroom, which is very popular in mediterian cuisine, primarily in Italy. Growing conditions: Spawn run: 21 - 27 °C Primordia formation: 10 – 16 ° C Fruiting: 13 – 18 ° C Convenient substrate: "Italian Stone Pine" or hardwood (most suitable: oak, alder, willow, poplar, cottonwood, maple) For indoor cultivation we recommend woodchips mixture in substrate bags. Casing: Mushroom casing soil (recommended for outdoor beds!) The cap of black poplar mushroom reachs a diamter of about 5 to 10 cm, the shaft will get a length of up to 12 cm. Out in the nature the agrocybe aegerita mushroom is ditributed in South and Central Europe, Norht Amerika and partly in Eastern Asia. Agrocybe aegerita is suitable for outdoor mushroom bed or cultivation on wood-logs. Please klick here for informations, how to use the culture! This culture was cultivated from spores by our mycological team and refined via natural selection. We declare explicit that you may use this cultures only for inoculation of substrates. Copiing and reselling is expressly prohibited! Important informations for ordering process of cultures: Please note, that this mushroom cultures are inoculated fresh for each order. Lead time: We shipp your culture as soon, as the agar-medium is fully colonized. This will take aprrox. 4 weeks after we received payment. Living culures will only survive a few days during shipping. Therefor we can only guarantee a perfect quality for shippings with EMS Express Mail Service or DPD Direct Parcle Distribution. Important information for shippings to any country which is NOT member of the EU: Please check the import regulations of your country. There may be a quarantine for living cultures. In this case the culture may arrive in a bad quality at your place. You are not sure, if your country is inside the customs territory of the EU? - Please click here and visit the homepage of Euopean Union!