I found a nice healthy group of the Velvet foot fungus...a wild version of the Enokie fungus. and I am currently growing spores and making clones from tissue samples of it to infect elm logs.
Here is a page from Mr Tom Volk's site that has greater detail on this interesting mushroom.
botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/march97.html
I will infect one end of the log with the wild strain and the other end with the clone I made from the store bought mushroom.
and then a FIGHT TO THE DEATH :twisted: !!!
Who will win the log? who will be more productive?
Stay tuned for MUSHROOM WARS!!
The slowest action deathmatch ever!
Oh God I need a life. 8O

I casted my vote for the wilders, just for the heck of it. But, I'd have to say that the store bought clone, coming from a strain that has been geared for results will probably win. Its a interesting experiment to try. Keep us posted.

Wild for me. My guess is that the wild one is tougher than the commercial version, being exposed to more contaminants & a wider range of nutrients than the one in a controlled environment.

Peter ,
I think the wild will win also.Most likely the wild has a broader immune system.The store bought was probably cloned from a fruit . It is hard to start from spores and predict the fruiting ability.From spores numerous pheno types .From clone exact genetics as the doner .Geese I am so full of hooey.Please udate progress.

You'll have to be patient...it was a clone from a fruitbody for the domestic and a multispore from the wild one...both are still growing into thier dishes and thew will get into the same log.
Personally I bet they will look the same...I can't see them being so different that they even have a slight difference.the domestic were white and leggy with tiny caps but that was because of the growing environment...the wild ones were dark capped and stocky.

Any difference in taste?