Meet the organisms behind the ritual.
Ten mushroom species appear across our range. This guide covers what each one is, where it grows, how it has traditionally been used, what form we actually use, and exactly which of our products contain it. Every sourcing statement below is taken from the product's own ingredient panel. Where this guide and a Supplement Facts panel disagree, the panel is correct.
Why mushrooms aren't like ordinary supplements
Two products can name the same mushroom and contain very different things. What matters is the species, the part of the organism used, and the amount. A label that says only "mushroom blend" is telling you almost nothing. That is why every entry below names a species and every product page lists the full ingredients.
The Mushroom Library
1. Lion's Mane — Hericium erinaceus
Also called: Hou Tou Gu, Yamabushitake, bearded tooth fungus.
What it looks like: A white, shaggy cascade of soft spines, more like a sea creature than a mushroom. No cap, no gills.
Where it grows: On hardwood — usually beech, oak and maple — across North America, Europe and Asia, often on wounds high up a living trunk.
Traditional use: Used for centuries in Chinese and Japanese food and traditional practice.
Compounds studied: Hericenones and erinacines, plus beta-glucan polysaccharides. These are research subjects, not promises.
What we actually use: Our Lion's Mane Caps use both fruiting body and mycelium powder — the panel says so, and so do we. The Shroom 10X Gummies and Shroom 10X Capsules use fruiting body. Other formulas list an extract without specifying the part.
Supports focus and mental clarity.*
Find it in: Lion's Mane Caps · Shroom Energy Elixir · Shroom Focus Strips · Adaptogen Vitality Gummies · Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules · Ground Shroom Brew · Instant Shroom Brew
2. Reishi — Ganoderma lucidum
Also called: Lingzhi, the "mushroom of immortality" (a traditional name, not a claim).
What it looks like: A hard, kidney-shaped shelf with a lacquered red-brown surface that looks varnished.
Where it grows: At the base of hardwoods, especially plum, oak and maple, in warm humid regions.
Traditional use: One of the most documented mushrooms in East Asian herbal tradition, recorded for roughly two thousand years.
Compounds studied: Triterpenes (including ganoderic acids) and beta-glucans. Reishi is notably bitter — that bitterness comes from the triterpenes.
What we actually use: Fruiting body in the Shroom 10X Gummies and Shroom 10X Capsules; mycelial biomass in the Fermented Mushroom Blend; an extract of unspecified part elsewhere.
Supports a healthy stress response and overall vitality.*
Find it in: Reishi Relax Elixir · Reishi Relax Gummies · Shroom Immunity Elixir · Fermented Mushroom Blend · Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules
3. Cordyceps — two different species
This is the one place our range uses more than one species under a single common name, and we would rather be precise than tidy.
Cordyceps militaris — a bright orange club fungus, cultivated commercially. This is the species named on the panel for the Fermented Mushroom Blend.
Cordyceps sinensis (also classified as Ophiocordyceps sinensis) — the high-altitude Himalayan species of the historical record. This is the species named on the panels for Shroom Focus Strips and Shroom 10X Capsules, where it is mycelium powder.
Our other cordyceps products list the common name only. We do not assign a species we cannot verify.
Where they grow: Both are parasitic on insects in the wild; commercial supply is cultivated rather than wild-harvested.
Traditional use: Recorded in Tibetan and Chinese practice, historically associated with stamina and recovery.
Compounds studied: Cordycepin and beta-glucans.
Supports natural energy, endurance and exercise recovery.*
Find it in: Cordyceps Energy Gummies · Shroom Energy Elixir · Shroom Immunity Elixir · Shroom Focus Strips · Fermented Mushroom Blend · Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules
4. Chaga — Inonotus obliquus
Also called: Birch conk, cinder conk.
What it looks like: A blackened, cracked mass that looks like burnt charcoal on the side of a tree, with a rust-orange interior.
Where it grows: Almost exclusively on birch in cold northern forests — Siberia, Scandinavia, Canada, northern US.
Traditional use: Long used as a brewed drink across Russia, the Baltics and northern Europe.
Botanical note: The black mass is a sclerotium, not a true fruiting body — a dense mass of fungal tissue mixed with birch material. Chaga is genuinely unusual this way.
What we actually use: Our Chaga Mushroom Caps are built on mycelium powder, not fruiting body. We would rather say that plainly than let the package imply otherwise. The Shroom 10X Gummies and Shroom 10X Capsules list chaga as fruiting body.
Supports immune health and overall vitality.*
Find it in: Chaga Mushroom Caps · Shroom Immunity Elixir · Adaptogen Vitality Gummies · Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules · Reishi Relax Elixir · Ground Shroom Brew · Instant Shroom Brew
5. Shiitake — Lentinula edodes
Also called: Xiang gu, black forest mushroom. Some of our panels use the synonym Lentinus edodes — same organism.
What it looks like: Tan to dark brown umbrella cap, often cracked in a pale web pattern, with white gills.
Where it grows: On decaying hardwood in East Asia; now one of the most widely cultivated mushrooms on earth.
Traditional use: A food first and a tonic second, eaten in China and Japan for well over a thousand years.
Compounds studied: Lentinan, a beta-glucan.
Supports immune health.*
Find it in: Shroom Immunity Elixir · Adaptogen Vitality Gummies · Shroom Focus Strips · Fermented Mushroom Blend · Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules · Reishi Relax Elixir
6. Maitake — Grifola frondosa
Also called: Hen of the woods, sheep's head, dancing mushroom.
What it looks like: A large rosette of overlapping grey-brown fronds, like ruffled feathers stacked at the base of a tree.
Where it grows: At the base of oaks in temperate forests, returning to the same tree year after year.
Traditional use: Prized as a culinary mushroom in Japan and used in traditional practice.
Supports immune health.*
Find it in: Shroom Immunity Elixir · Adaptogen Vitality Gummies · Shroom Focus Strips · Fermented Mushroom Blend · Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules · Reishi Relax Elixir
7. Turkey Tail — Trametes versicolor
Also called: Yun zhi, kawaratake, Coriolus versicolor (older synonym).
What it looks like: Thin, banded, fan-shaped brackets in concentric rings of brown, grey, blue and cream — hence versicolor.
Where it grows: On dead hardwood almost everywhere on earth. One of the most common shelf fungi there is.
Compounds studied: PSK and PSP, two well-characterised polysaccharide preparations.
Supports immune health.*
Find it in: Shroom Immunity Elixir · Fermented Mushroom Blend · Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules · Reishi Relax Elixir
8. Royal Sun Agaricus — Agaricus blazei
Also called: Himematsutake, almond mushroom, cogumelo do sol.
What it looks like: A classic capped mushroom with a golden-brown, slightly scaly cap and a thick stem.
Where it grows: Native to the coastal mountains of Brazil; cultivated heavily in Japan, where it became popular in the late twentieth century.
Traditional use: A comparatively recent addition to the functional canon — its reputation dates to the 1960s rather than the ancient record.
Supports immune health.*
Find it in: Fermented Mushroom Blend · Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules
9. White Button — Agaricus bisporus
Also called: Cremini and Portobello — all three are the same species at different stages of maturity.
What it looks like: The mushroom in every supermarket: smooth white cap, pink gills darkening to brown.
Where it grows: Cultivated worldwide on composted substrate. It is the most-produced mushroom on the planet.
Why it's in a functional blend: It is an ordinary culinary mushroom, included for broad-spectrum coverage rather than for a headline effect. We would rather say that than dress it up.
Supports immune health.*
Find it in: Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules
10. Black Fungus — Auricularia species
Also called: Wood ear, cloud ear, jelly ear, mu er.
What it looks like: A translucent, rubbery, ear-shaped bracket that turns hard and brittle when dried and rehydrates almost exactly back to shape.
Where it grows: On dead and dying hardwood, especially elder, across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Traditional use: Primarily a food — a staple texture ingredient in Chinese cooking for centuries.
A note on precision: "Black fungus" is a common name covering more than one Auricularia species. Our supplier's panel lists the common name only, so we do not state a binomial we cannot verify.
Supports immune health.*
Find it in: Shroom 10X Gummies · Shroom 10X Capsules
Fruiting body, mycelium and fermented biomass
This is the most argued-about question in mushroom supplements. The honest answer is that it depends on the formula, and that neither form is inherently filler.
Fruiting body is the mushroom you would recognise — the part above ground.
Mycelium is the thread-like network the organism actually lives as. It is the living body of the fungus, not a by-product.
Fermented biomass is mycelium that has been micro-cultured through a fermentation process before drying.
We do not claim one is universally superior. We claim you are entitled to know which one you are buying — so here is exactly what our panels say:
- Shroom 10X Gummies — fruiting body extract, all ten species.
- Shroom 10X Capsules — fruiting body for nine species, mycelium for cordyceps.
- Lion's Mane Caps — fruiting body and mycelium powder.
- Chaga Mushroom Caps — mycelium powder.
- Fermented Mushroom Blend — mycelial biomass, by design. Fermentation is what works on it.
- Everything else — the panel lists an extract without naming the part. We will not fill that gap with a guess.
How to read our labels
- Find the species. A common name alone is not enough. "Cordyceps" covers at least two different organisms.
- Find the part. Fruiting body, mycelium, fermented biomass, or unspecified.
- Find the amount. Milligrams per serving, not per bottle.
- Check for a proprietary blend. If several mushrooms share one number, you know the total, not the split. Several of our formulas use one — the product page shows you which.
- Check what else is in it. Some of our formulas are not mushroom-only. The Shroom Energy Elixir also contains Alpha GPC, L-tyrosine and B12. We put that on the page rather than in the fine print.
If a brand won't show you the panel, that's the answer to your question.
Where to start
Morning: Shroom Energy Elixir, Ground Shroom Brew, Adaptogen Vitality Gummies.
Daytime: Shroom Focus Strips, Cordyceps Energy Gummies.
Evening: Reishi Relax Elixir, Reishi Relax Gummies.
Broad daily coverage: Shroom 10X Capsules, Shroom 10X Gummies, Fermented Mushroom Blend.
Not sure: the Shroom Starter Pack covers morning, daytime and evening in one box. Or browse everything.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Individual ingredients and amounts are listed on each product's Supplement Facts panel. Consult your healthcare provider before use if you are pregnant, nursing, taking medication, or managing a medical condition. Keep out of reach of children.