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"Paul" wrote

We have a very shaded part at the back of our allotment, not much will
grow, so we are thinking of try to grow oyster and shiitake
mushrooms. Has
anyone in the group tried this? What type of dead wood is best eg oak. We
have some 2-year-old apple trunks quietly rotting away, would they be any
good?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Yes, at the moment I have logs that I impregnated with Oyster, Shitake and
Lion's Mane and am awaiting the first mushrooms.
Old wood is certainly out, it's already infected with fungus which will
probably outcompete with the cultivated stuff you use and you could poison
yourself easily if it is one of the nasty ones that fruits and you thought
it a Shitake....

Not so easily - I know of no dangerous mushroom which grows on wood.
(And I've been studying them since oh, 1950/1) A few might make you
throw up (sulphur tuft) but nothing even vaguely poisonous looks like a
shiitake AFAIAA.

However, I'm not advocating you try just anything which you find growing
on wood...

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