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Agaricus bisporus accounts for about 90% of mushroom production in the United States, and 40% worldwide.  bisporus is the classic grocery store mushroom.  It goes by a variety of common names, including: “button mushroom,” “white mushroom,” “crimini,” and “portabella” (there are a variety of spellings for portabella).  That’s right, all of these are actually the same mushroom!  Crimini and portabella mushrooms come from a more flavorful brown strain of A. bisporus.  Portabellas are exactly the same strain as criminis but the mushrooms have been allowed to mature.  A. bisporus is commercially cultivated in large indoor facilities.  It is a secondary decomposer, so the substrate it is to be grown on needs to be composted first and then purified of the primary decomposers.  The growers then purchase “spawn” to inoculate the substrate with A. bisporus.  The spawn consists of A.bisporus mycelium growing on cereal grain.  The mycelium will grow through the...