Wild isolates only / Britain + Australia / Est. 2026
Liquid cultures that trace straight back to mushrooms growing wild in British woodland and the Australian bush. No commercial strains. No tamed lab lines. Wilds only.
The code
Every culture on file started as a mushroom growing wild. If it came out of a commercial strain catalogue, it does not get in.
A clean cut of tissue, run across agar until it grows pure. That is the whole process. No crossing, no breeding for supermarket looks.
You get the genetics the way the wild made them. Hardy, a little unpredictable, and nothing like the strain everyone else is running.
Each wild carries its country and its code on the label, so you always know where your culture comes from.
Drop 001 / on file
Seven on file. Six out of British mud, one out of Australian dust. Open a file to see what each one wants.
Flammulina velutipes
Fruits when everything else has quit. Tight tufts of amber caps on dark velvet stems, straight through the frost.
Cyclocybe aegerita
The poplar fieldcap. Dense clusters, long crisp stems and brown caps that crack like dry mud as they age.
Pleurotus pulmonarius
Fast, hungry and hard to kill. Pale shelving fans that tear through straw and ask for very little.
Hericium erinaceus
A white cascade of spines off old beech and oak. One of the rarest fungi in British woodland.
Ganoderma lucidum
A lacquered red bracket that looks varnished. Slow, woody and built for tea and extracts, not the frying pan.
Hericium coralloides
Branching white coral hung with icicle teeth. A rare sight in the wild and a showpiece in the grow room.
First Australian wild on file
Trametes versicolor
Banded brackets stacked in fans, tough as old boots and quick across hardwood. The first wild in from the other side of the planet.
Substrates, temperatures and levels are growing guides, not guarantees. Wilds do what they want.
50°N to 58°N
Britain
Oak, beech, bog and hedgerow. Wet boots, cold hands and six wilds on file.
10°S to 43°S
Australia
Gum forest, fern gully and red dirt. One wild on file and more on the way.
The cut
Five steps. Nothing added, nothing bred in, nothing smoothed off.
A mushroom fruiting wild, in the place it chose.
A clean piece of tissue taken from inside the fruit body. One specimen, one line.
Run across agar plates until the culture is pure mycelium and nothing else.
Expanded into liquid culture, ready to hit grain.
Labelled with its code and its country. Grow it your way.
Drop 001
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Questions
It was cloned from a mushroom growing wild, not bought in from a commercial strain catalogue. Every culture here traces back to a wild find in Britain or Australia.
Commercial strains are bred to behave the same in every grow room. Wilds are not. They carry the genetics of the place they came from, they can be less predictable, and that is exactly why growers want them.
Liquid culture in a syringe, labelled with its code and country, ready to inoculate grain. Sizes and prices land with Drop 001.
WO is Wild Origin. GB or AU is the country the wild came from. The number is its place on file.
Lion’s mane is protected in the wild in Britain. It stays on file and it is not part of Drop 001.