A male scarlet tanager perched on a mossy fallen log beside a wild Lion's Mane fruiting on the Appalachian forest floor
Appalachia

Redbird — Appalachian Wild-Culture Library

Redbird

Live wild-collected culture isolates. Provenance is the product.

The Catalog

Wild Isolates

Lion's Mane culture isolate from Upshur County, WVHE-1223

Lion's Mane

Hericium erinaceus

Upshur County, WVFrom $20
Lion's Mane culture isolate from Barbour County, WVHE-SBO

Lion's Mane

Hericium erinaceus

Barbour County, WVFrom $20
Bear's Head Tooth culture isolate from Upshur County, WVHA-001

Bear's Head Tooth

Hericium americanum

Upshur County, WVFrom $20
Bear's Head Tooth culture isolate from Barbour County, WVHA-002

Bear's Head Tooth

Hericium americanum

Barbour County, WVFrom $20
Oyster culture isolate from Barbour County, WVPO-102

Oyster

Pleurotus ostreatus

Barbour County, WVFrom $20
Beefsteak culture isolate from Upshur County, WVFH-BUB

Beefsteak

Fistulina hepatica

Upshur County, WVFrom $20
Chicken of the Woods culture isolate from Upshur County, WVLC-001

Chicken of the Woods

Laetiporus cincinnatus

Upshur County, WVFrom $20
Hemlock Reishi culture isolate from Upshur County, WVGT-001

Hemlock Reishi

Ganoderma tsugae

Upshur County, WVFrom $20
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On Provenance

Each culture came from a real tree in a real county. That origin is the whole value.

Redbird is a wild-culture library. We isolate living cultures from wild fruitings in specific Appalachian counties and keep the line tied to where it came from. Landrace thinking applied to fungi: the genetics carry their ground with them.

These are live, wild-collected culture isolates — prized strains, each with a traceable history back to the tree and county it came from. They are true wild specimens, so results will track your conditions, but every line carries the ground it grew from.