Black Poplar (Agrocybe aegerita)
Black Poplar (Agrocybe aegerita), also known as Pioppino, is a highly prized gourmet mushroom famous for its rich flavour, crisp texture, and beautiful long-stemmed clusters. A favourite in Italian and Asian cuisine, Black Poplar is a rewarding and delicious species for home growers.
🔥 Why Grow Black Poplar?
- Delicious nutty, earthy flavour with a crunchy texture
- Beautiful long-stemmed clusters that look incredible when fruiting
- Reliable coloniser with strong, ropey mycelium
- A premium gourmet mushroom loved by chefs
🧪 Produced in Our UK Sterile Lab
Each Black Poplar culture is created in small batches inside our HEPA-filtered UK laboratory. Every batch is strain-verified, test-grown, and contamination-checked to ensure vigorous colonisation and clean growth.
🧬 Choose Your Format
1. Liquid Culture (10ml)
A fast-growing, high-performance liquid inoculant perfect for sterilised grain. Ideal for reliable colonisation and strong yields.
2. Agar Culture Plate
A sterile petri dish containing active Black Poplar mycelium. Perfect for expansion, cloning, or maintaining your own culture library.
3. Agar Slant
A long-term storage tube grown on angled agar. Excellent for preserving a strong and clean Pioppino culture for months.
4. Black Poplar Grow Kit
A fully colonised fruiting block ready to produce long-stemmed gourmet clusters at home. Cut, mist, and harvest beautiful flushes with ease.
📦 What You’ll Receive
- Your selected Black Poplar culture format
- Fresh, sterile culture produced in our UK lab
- Instructions for use
- The Mushroom Lab sterility guarantee
🛡️ Sterility Guarantee
If your Black Poplar culture arrives contaminated or compromised, we will replace it free of charge.
🚚 Fast UK Delivery
All orders are shipped from our UK sterile facility and typically arrive within 1–3 working days.