Mushroom Guru

The Mushroom, is the Teacher!

The word guru, as a noun, means teacher or imparter of knowledge in Sanskrit. 

As an adjective, guru means heavy with knowledge.

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Mushrooms have more to teach us than you can imagine.

Ganoderma​GOLD™

Ganoderma lucidum Reishi

GanodermaGOLD™ is South Africa's premium dual-extract Reishi product.

Our proprietary growing and extraction methods deliver the ONLY dual extract, antler, Ganoderma lucidum product in South Africa.

It is cultivated in South Africa for South Africans! Mushroom Guru has perfected a proprietary growing method and developed South Africa's first pure Reishi double extract range.

​Ganoderma lucidum is also known as Lingzhi in China and Reishi in Japan, and has been used for its medicinal properties for more than 2,000 years. This extraordinary fungus is highly effective as an adaptogen and therefore regulates, balance and harmonises the body and all its complex systems.

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If you would like to learn how to grow these wonderful and mystifying specimens yourself, we may have a solution for you.
​Mushroom Guru delivers mushroom education through DIY projects, attendance ​courses and social media platforms. 

Play

​In these "do it yourself" introduction eBooks you will learn How to grow Shiitake mushrooms on logs or Oyster mushrooms using the lime technique and grow bags. 

Do It Yourself

Learn

We maintain a culture library of 64 mushroom species and you get to choose 10 of these, when doing the full
Advanced Fungi Culturing Course.​

​During this course, we will teach you how to use a glove box with a 100% success rate, and if you choose to work in front of a Lamina Flow, we've got you covered too.

Courses

Connect

​​Do you want to connect with other hobbyists in your area? Once you have completed a workshop or course with us, you are a fungkifriend™​ and can list here for FREE and contact other fungkifriends.

Are you now growing your own exotic mushrooms and want to sell them? You can list for FREE in order for buyers to find you.

Do you want to buy fresh exotic mushrooms from our trained cultivators? Contact cultivators directly or list here for them to contact you.

fungkifriend

Shop

​​We ship our GanodermaGOLD™ Reishi products, cultures, dowels, spawn and cultivation supplies nationally. You can view our online SHOP to browse our products, see the pricing, order and make payment.​

SHOP

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This website is designed to give you accurate information about mushrooms.

​We support mushroom cultivators and the mushroom curious by providing information on which mushrooms you can cultivate, wild mushrooms you can eat and wild mushrooms you should avoid.

Edible Mushrooms

Medicinal Mushrooms

Poisonous Mushrooms

​If you have found a mushroom you would like it identified, please DO NOT EMAIL US as we do not offer this service.
Please visit and upload your photos to any of these Facebook pages or join one of the many mushroom WhatsApp groups:
​Mushrooms of Southern Africa
 Mushrooms of Western Cape
Mushrooms of Mpumalanga
​Mushroom Hunting in South Africa

Alternately visit the following website to purchase and download the Learn Mushroom Hunting eBook
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"There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, ​never both."