Dear Shami, before cultivating mushrooms you must know their biology. Agaricus genus is saprophytic, Amanita is ectomycorrhizal. So they have very different requirements and nutrition. Other thing is, do you want to cultivate mycelia or fruit bodies? Mycelia of saprophytic mushrooms grow easily and fast on culture media, while mycelia of ectomycorrhizal fungi grow slow and few species can do it. To get the fruit bodies you need additional infrastructure; with some practice you can get fruit bodies of saprobes, but you will never get fruitbodies of ectomycorrhizal ones since they need the plant host to complete their life cycle.

If you want to start on this, a good reference is the mushroom cultivator book y Paul Stamets, here is a link:

http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Permaculture/Mushroom_Cultivator-A_Practical_Guide_to_Growing_Mushrooms_at_Home.pdf

good luck

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Hi Shami

You read this paper 'Wild edible fungi"

https://www.fao.org/3/a-y5489e.pdf

And this "The Mushrooms"

https://www.namyco.org/docs/MycophileJanFeb2014.pdf

This "Techniques for growing mushroom

https://www.dawn.com/news/274297

And "Reference1"

https://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/fcrp008.pdf/$FILE/fcrp008.pdf

Also "Reference2"

https://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/AustMycolSoc/Journal/2001/20_2.pdf

Also "Reference3"

http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC65050/elements%20in%20mushrooms-24415-en%202011.pdf

Also "Reference4"

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-33823-6.pdf

And "Reference5"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10534-016-9912-x

And "Reference6"

https://www.imafungus.org/Issue/62/25.pdf

Also "Reference7"

https://bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt/bitstream/10198/12426/1/Patr%C3%ADcia%20do%20Carmo%20Claro%20Diz.pdf

Also "Reference8"

http://fmedicine.ajums.ac.ir/_fmedicine/documents/Fungal%20Conservation_20130416_092059.pdf