Abstract
Abstract The world’s total production of cultivated fleshy fungi is estimated to be about 6 × 108 kg/year. Approximately 75% of this production is of one species, the so-called cultivated mushroom or champignon, Agaricus bisporus. Shiitake, Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Sing., is second in importance with about 20% or 1.2 × 108 kg. Included in the remaining production of 2.5 × 107 kg are species of Volvariella (Paddy straw mushroom), Pleurotus (oyster mushroom), Tuber, (truffles), Auricularia (ear fungus), and Tremella (jelly fungus) (16, 40, 46). Flammulina velutipes (Fr.) Sing. (winter mushroom) also is cultivated commercially. About 1/4 of the world’s production of Agaricus bisporus, 1.3 × 108 kg, was produced in the U.S. in 19742. Present farm value of the U.S. mushroom crop is about $123 million. Today, especially in Europe and Asia there is considerable interest in commercial production of cultivated mushrooms other than A. bisporus.
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