Story: Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi

Button mushroom display

Different types of button mushroom are shown in this supermarket display. Commercially-grown button mushrooms are available year-round.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi – Mushroom industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16817/button-mushroom-display (accessed 20 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.

Comments

Ts.Ebi
22 July 2010

Hello!my name is Ebi.I`m Mongolian.34 yers old.I want build small button mushroom farm in Mongolia.But dont now how do this.Please help me.