A study of mushroom species using sawdust of different economic tree species

Abstract

Lentinus squarrosulus (Mont.) Singer was cultivated on the sawdust of five economic tropical tree spe-cies;
Chlorophora excelsa, Celtis zenkeri, Guera cedrata, Nesogordenia papaverifera and Brachystegia, collected
during processing at the sawmill. The highest yield of fruiting bodies (16.17 ± 1.25 g) was observed on B.
nigerica sawdust supplemented with 1% CaCO3, 1% sugar and 20% wheat bran. The lowest yield (4.56 ± 1.84 g),
was observed on N. papaverifera sawdust without supple-mentation. The results of this study demonstrate that
L. squarrosulus mushroom did not show any particular trend with increase in supplementation level. The