Glossary
- Dormant--Season when hardwood trees lose their leaves.
This is generally from mid-October to mid-March.
- Inoculation--The introduction of spawn into a medium,
logs, sawdust, etc.
- Mycilia--The plural of mycelium.
- Mycelium--The vegetative part of a fungus made of a mass
or network of threadlike tubes.
- Spawn--The vegetative growth or pure culture mushroom
mycelia on a suitable sterilized substrate such as various agars, grains,
or wood chips.
- Substrate--The material in which the shiitake mycelia
grows. This includes logs, sawdust, grain, etc.
- Weed fungi--Fungi other than shiitake that invade a log
inoculated with shiitake spawn