Trametes versicolor - Turkey tail

Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) is a thin, leathery bracket fungus grown on sawdust-based substrates, one of the most studied medicinal mushrooms, used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2000 years.¹

Inputs

• Substrate: hardwood sawdust with added wheat bran; a 90% sawdust/10% bran mix colonizes and fruits fastest (about 40 days total cultivation, 30 days to first harvest), while a 70% sawdust/30% bran mix gives the best yield (159 g/kg, 45.5% biological efficiency).¹
• Substrate moisture around 65%, fruiting room held at 80-90% relative humidity and about 24°C (75°F).¹

Outputs

• Medicinal use¹

Type

• Edible fungi

Footnotes

1. Jahedi, A., Jahed Markid, M., Mohammadi, R. (2026). Cultivation of Trametes versicolor on supplemented agro-forestry wastes: yield, antioxidant activity, and first report from Iran. Asian Journal of Mycology 9(1), 344-359 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴