Different cultivation methods of Hericium erinaceus (Bull: Fr.) Pers. in Chhattisgarh

Abstract

Among the cultivated edible and medicinal mushrooms, Lion’s Mane Mushroom (Hericium erinaceum (Bull. Fr.) Pers.) Is an important mushroom and grown in North America, Europe and Asia. It is also known as monkey head mushroom in China, and ‘cendawan bunga kobis’ in Malaysia. In nature, the fruit body grows out of the knotholes or wounds of a tree. The fresh, young fruit body is edible and is regarded as a delicacy. Different containers i.e. bottle, bucket and poly propylenebag methods were evaluated to see thier effect on spawn run and yield of H. erinaceus and poly propylene bag method was found superior then other methods to achieve maximum yield (191.33g) with 38.26% BE of H. erinaceus while least yield (107.0g) with 10.7% BE was observed on bucket methods.