Pure Culture Slant

Expand Your Mushroom Culture Library

Looking for a new mushroom strain for your lab, farm, or cultivation research? Mushroom Mountain Pure Culture Slants provide a clean, viable culture from our extensive collection of cultivated and wild-isolated mushroom strains.

Each culture is prepared in a sterile 50 mL centrifuge tube containing approximately 25 mL of malt extract agar. Our cultures are maintained at generation G-5 or lower, making them suitable for culture expansion, cultivation, strain preservation, and research.

Choose from dozens of gourmet, medicinal, native, wild-isolated, and specialty mushroom cultures collected and maintained by Mushroom Mountain.

🔬 Best For

• Mushroom growers with sterile laboratory equipment
• Commercial mushroom farms
• Experienced home cultivators
• Culture expansion and strain preservation
• Mycological research
• Growers building a culture library

⚠️ Lab Experience Required

This is a pure mushroom culture intended for laboratory use and is not a ready-to-grow mushroom product.

Working with a culture slant requires sterile technique and appropriate laboratory equipment. If you're new to mushroom cultivation and simply want to grow mushrooms at home, we recommend starting with mushroom spawn or a fruiting kit instead.

🍄 What's Included

Each slant includes:

• One selected mushroom culture
• Sterile 50 mL plastic centrifuge tube with twist cap
• Approximately 25 mL malt extract agar
• Antibiotic added to help limit bacterial growth during storage
• Waterproof identification label
• Strain and generation information
• Storage medium information
• Parafilm seal around the screw cap

🧫 How Our Culture Slants Are Prepared

Our slants are made to order weekly and allowed to colonize for approximately one week at 28°C (82°F) before shipment.

Each culture is carefully labeled, sealed with Parafilm around the screw cap, and packaged in a zip-top bag for shipment.

❄️ Storage

Refrigerate your culture slant upon arrival.

When properly maintained under refrigeration, culture slants can remain viable for several years, making them an excellent way to preserve strains and maintain a long-term mushroom culture collection.

💡 Mushroom Mountain Tip

Don't repeatedly open your master culture to make transfers. Use your slant to establish working cultures, then work from those whenever possible. Keeping your original culture clean and refrigerated gives you a reliable culture to return to when needed.

📦 Made to Order

Pure Culture Slants are prepared weekly and require time for the culture to colonize before shipment. Please allow additional processing time compared with ready-to-ship growing supplies.