White Beech Shimeji (Hypsizygus tessellatus)

White Beech Shimeji is a refined gourmet mushroom known for its delicate flavour, crisp bite and beautifully clustered caps. A staple in Japanese cuisine and increasingly popular with home growers, this species produces stunning, compact clusters perfect for stir-fries, soups and sautés. Our cultures are produced fresh in our sterile UK lab and delivered in the format that suits your grow: liquid culture, agar plate, agar slant or ready-to-fruit grow kit.

🔥 Why Grow White Beech Shimeji?

• Produces elegant, tight clusters with snowy white caps

• Crisp texture and mild umami flavour — a chef’s favourite

• Reliable coloniser on grain and supplemented hardwood substrates

• Highly rewarding for growers seeking a clean, attractive gourmet mushroom

• Excellent shelf life and exceptional cooking versatility

🧪 Produced in Our UK Sterile Lab
Every White Beech Shimeji culture is prepared in small batches inside our HEPA-filtered laboratory. Each batch is contamination-tested, strain-verified, and shipped fresh for consistent and vigorous growth.

🧬 Choose Your Format

1. Liquid Culture (10ml)
A fast-growing suspension of live mycelium in nutrient broth. Perfect for inoculating sterilised grain jars or bags before transferring to hardwood substrates. The quickest path to growing Shimeji at home.

2. Agar Culture Plate
A sterile petri dish containing a clean, healthy Shimeji culture. Ideal for expanding, cloning, long-term projects or maintaining your own propagation library.

3. Agar Slant
A long-term storage tube with Shimeji mycelium grown on angled agar. Preserves genetic stability and allows multiple future inoculations.

4. White Beech Shimeji Grow Kit
A fully colonised block designed for easy home fruiting. Simply cut, mist and harvest beautiful clusters of Shimeji within days.

📦 What You’ll Receive

• Your chosen White Beech Shimeji culture format

• A sterile, lab-prepared culture produced in the UK

• Clear instructions for use

• The Mushroom Lab sterility guarantee

🛡️ Sterility Guarantee
If your culture arrives compromised or contaminated, we will replace it free of charge. Your success is our priority.

🚚 Fast UK Delivery
All orders ship from our UK lab and typically arrive in 1–3 working days.