"Giant shelf fungus, tree tongue" Pure mushroom culture on agar - medium The artist conk is one of the widest distributed plypore mushroom on planet earth! The fruitbodies are mostly big and grow for several years. Convenient substrate: Hardwood, conifers (douglasia) We recommend the inoculation of woodlogs. Ganoderma applanatum can be found in all deciduous and mixed woodlands rarely in coniferous woodlands. The fruiting bodies of this mushroom grow for several years, therfor it is not very suitable for indoor cultivation. The artists conk can get very old (40 - 50 years), the fruiting bodies get a diameter of up to 90 cm and will be up to 20 cm thick. The artist conk will be a eye catcher in ervy garden over years. You can use the dried fruiting bodies for woody folwer arrangements. 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!