Chestnut:

PA-CNS

PA-CNS, the almighty Pholiota Adiposa or Chestnut Mushroom, commonly mis-referred to as the Cinnamon Cap, which is actually Hypholoma Lateritium or Brick Cap. I first snagged these genetics from the Rosemont Market warehouse in 2013. The mushrooms were then being cultivated by New Hampshire Mushroom Company and the genetics were from the one and only North West Mycological in Oregon. In an interesting conversation with Chris of Mycopia Mushrooms back in those days about the possibility of incorporating bottle technology into our farm, he mentioned off the cuff that one of their first cultivated mushrooms on bottles was p. adiposa but the shelf life was not great and there was a complication with allergic reactions in-humanoid to a protein in the chitin, which I’ve come to understand as not being the reality, rather that folks were undercooking their chestnuts and occasionally becoming temporarily ill….although, this reaction is rare. Genetics are getting wildly complicated these days as large farms attempt to pretend they own certain genetic-mutations, but hopefully we can keep the underground supply chain and movement of genetics going and growing without lawsuits being filed in the name of freeing-thy-fungi!