Shiitake Liquid Culture Syringe
- Ships from the USA
- Free shipping over $50
- Lab-prepared, single parent
A clean, lab-prepared Shiitake liquid culture (Lentinula edodes), drawn into a sealed 10cc syringe and ready to inoculate sterilized grain or supplemented hardwood. Shiitake is the world's most cultivated gourmet mushroom — meaty, umami-rich caps in warm chestnut brown that have anchored kitchens across Asia for centuries. This is our reliable 3782 production strain.
A hardwood-loving species, Shiitake rewards patience: blocks colonize fully, then brown over and fruit in flushes, delivering that unmistakable savory depth fresh or dried. It's a more involved grow than oysters, which makes a strong, clean culture especially valuable.
Every Gourmet Cultures syringe is drawn under HEPA-filtered laminar airflow from a single verified parent culture, so you start from clean, living mycelium instead of gambling on contamination. Explore more culinary liquid cultures like Chestnut and Blue Oyster, or browse every liquid culture syringe we make.
Planning your grow? Read the Shiitake liquid culture grow guide.
Start clean
See how Shiitake compares with faster first projects in our beginner liquid culture guide. Before inoculation, review syringe technique, storage, contamination troubleshooting, and the grain-spawn guide.
Available in bundles: Beginner 5-Pack, Culinary 5-Pack, and Hardwood 5-Pack.
