Special Notes:

If you order a previously inoculated log from us, our shiitake spawn are inoculated into oak. Oyster spawn are inoculated into poplar.

Superior is the best overall producer, Recommended are highly suitable, Satisfactory are moderately, suitable, and Questionable can grow but yield low, Fields left blank are either unsuitable or untested.

Note: In Shiitake cultivation avoid Ash, Black Walmart, Elm, Black Locust, Golden Oyster recommended for Ash. Avoid all Oak species in Oyster Cultivation.

* = Superior    ✓ = Recommended    O = Satisfactory    X = Questionable

	Shiitake	Oyster	Lion’s Mane & Comb Tooth	Nameko	Olive Oysterling	Maitake	Reishi	Chicken of the Woods
Alder	✓	O		O
Apple				X
Ash		X		O	O			X
Aspen, Box Elder, Cottonwood & Willow		*	O	*
Basswood	O	O		O	O
Beech, American	✓	O	*		✓
Bitternut Hickory, Butternut, & Sulpher Bud	O
Black Birch & Paper Birch	O		O	O	O
Black Gum & Tupelo	O
Black Walnut			O
Blue Beech & Hornbeam	✓		✓
Buckeye		O		✓	O
Buckthorn	X
Cherry	O			*	O			O
Chinese Tallow Tree & Tree of Heaven		O
Elm		O		O			*
Eucalyptus	O
Hackberry & Mulberry		✓	✓	O
Ironwood/Hophornbeam	✓	O		✓	O
Maple, Hard (Sugar)	✓	O	*	✓	*		*
Maple, Soft (Red, Silver)	O	O			X		O
Oak	*		O		*	*	O	*
Palms		O	O
Pear & Sycamore		O
Sassafras & Sourwood	O	O
Sweet Gum	✓	O	O	✓			✓
Tulip & Yellow Poplar		✓		*
Jack Pine