Turkey Tail Plugs - (Trametes versicolor)

Turkey Tail Plugs from Mushroom Mountain are roughly 100 hardwood dowel plugs pre-colonized with Turkey Tail mycelium (Trametes versicolor) for growing this colorful, easy-to-identify medicinal mushroom on logs. Turkey Tail has tough, multicolored zoned brackets that are not eaten directly but are powdered for teas or made into tinctures.

At a glance

• Form: approximately 100 pre-colonized hardwood dowel plugs by weight
• Species: Trametes versicolor (Turkey Tail)
• Grows on: hardwood logs such as oak, maple, birch, beech, cherry, poplar, sweetgum, and many others
• Fruiting temperature: around 70F, with wild fruiting typically from late summer through winter
• Edibility: tough texture, best powdered for tea or made into a tincture
• Availability: year-round

Best for

• Outdoor log cultivation
• Makers of powders, teas, and tinctures
• Easy identification and beginner foraging-style growing
• Home and small-scale producers

How to use

• Drill holes in hardwood logs, insert plugs, and seal with wax
• Keep logs in a shaded, humid location to colonize
• Powder dried fruitbodies and boil, or cover with ethanol for two weeks to make a tincture, then dilute or boil to remove alcohol

About Mushroom Mountain

Mushroom Mountain is a South Carolina cultivation company producing fresh spawn, grow kits, and mushroom extracts in-house with decades of cultivation experience.