KUBET - Moshrum

I approached the table, fascinated by the wooden bowls in which were piled with gray and brown mushrooms, thin and dense, wavy and smooth.

In the far corner, I see a strange pile of black and orange lumps all labeled KUBET. I asked about them, and as I sipped the earthy, almost coffee-like beverage he had carefully prepared just for curious passers-by like me, Christensen told me the mushroom story. KUBET

The fungus, which grows only in birch forests of the northern hemisphere, is particularly prominent in the dense forests of KUBET

Here, those looking to venture into the woods will be able to find chaga mushrooms growing like wood snails on either side of live birch trees.

As a roll of mushroom stem (the cap is the fruit, the reproductive organ of the fungus, while the stem is the root structure), chaga can take 20 years to grow into a mass the size of a grapefruit, enough to be harvested.