Treasure Coast

Variety Origin: As its name mentions it, the Treasure Coast was first collected from the Southern Florida Gulf Coast. It was first found growing in bovine and equine dung and soils which were filled with nutrition.grows very large flushes, they are not very tall but they do grow in big and dense clusters. When grown with spores, it is a very fast colonizer. It is a prolific fruiter and it will occasionally grow some Albino or close to Albino strains, no guarantees though! The caps are very lightly caramel colored (unless they appear Albino). All the Albino sub-strains of the Treasure Coast will have a frosted look on the caps, and they are all very potent mushrooms, the white caps can be even more powerful.

Habitat: Bovine, Equine Dung and Enriched Soils

Climate: Subtropical

Cap: 15-25 mm in diameter, convex to broadly convex to plane at maturity. Orange/burnt orange maturing to golden brown to light yellow with nearly white edges. Surface dry lacking remnants of universal veil on cap (spots). Flesh white soon bruising bluish green.

Stem: 50-125+ mm in length. Flesh bruising bluish green where injured. Persistent membranous annulus (ring) from partial veil that becomes dusted with purple brown spores at maturity.

Gills: Attachment adnate to adnexed. Grayish coloration in young fruit bodies becoming nearly black in maturity.

Spores: Dark purple/brown, subellipsoid on 4-spored basidia

• Growing difficulty: Simple
• Substrate: Manure, straw, various grains
• Colonization time: 12-14 days
• Colonization temperature: 28-30 degrees Celsius
• Fruit temperature: 18-27 degrees Celsius