Collection: Super Mushrooms

A Guide to the Varieties

Agaricus Blazei

Native to Brazil, where it is called cogumelo do sol, the mushroom of the sun. A relative latecomer to the traditional mushroom canon, it reached wider use through Japanese cultivation in the twentieth century.

Chaga

Grows on birch in cold climates — Northern Europe, Russia, Siberia and Canada. Unlike the others it is not a soft-bodied mushroom but a hard blackened mass called a sclerotium, which looks like burnt wood. Traditionally brewed as a tea across Russia and the Baltic states.

Cordyceps

Found wild in the high mountain regions of China, Tibet and Nepal, where it grows on insect larvae. Ours is cultivated on a nutrient medium rather than wild-collected, which makes it both sustainable and vegan friendly.

Lion's Mane

Native to North America, Europe and Asia. Named for the long white spines that hang down from the fruiting body. Also eaten as a culinary mushroom, with a texture often compared to crab.

Maitake

Means “dancing mushroom” in Japanese. Grows in overlapping fan-shaped clusters at the base of oak trees, and is known in English as hen of the woods.

Reishi

Grown in hot, humid climates across Asia. Hard, glossy and kidney-shaped, and too woody to eat, which is why it is almost always taken as an extract or a tea. Known in China as lingzhi.

Shiitake

Originates in East Asia and is the most familiar of the group. Traditionally grown on hardwood logs, and commercially on sawdust blocks.

Turkey Tail

Named for its concentric bands of colour. One of the most common mushrooms on earth, growing on dead and decaying wood on every continent except Antarctica.

Choosing a Format

• Powdered extracts — mix into coffee, smoothies, hot water or food
• Capsules — pre-measured, no preparation
• Tinctures — liquid, taken by the drop
• Elixirs — five or six mushrooms blended into one powder, including an espresso blend that can complement your morning coffee

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