PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a culture medium for artificial cultivation of Tricholoma matsutake, for forming carpophores of Tricholoma matsutake excellently, and to provide a method for artificially cultivating Tricholoma matsutake.SOLUTION: This culture medium for artificial cultivation of Tricholoma matsutake includes active ingredients including barley, wheat, rye and rice bran, and water. The method for artificially cultivating Tricholoma matsutake using the culture medium for artificial cultivation of Tricholoma matsutake includes a cultivation culture process of culturing at &le30°C a hypha-containing culture medium made by inoculating Tricholoma matsutake hypha to an artificial cultivation culture medium. In the cultivation culture process, the surface of the hypha-containing culture medium is covered with a wet covering material (peat moss) of pH higher than that of the artificial cultivation culture medium.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】マツタケの子実体を良好に形成させる、マツタケの人工栽培用培地及びマツタケの人工栽培方法を提供する。【解決手段】本発明のマツタケの人工栽培用培地は、大麦、小麦、ライ麦及び米糠を含む有効成分と、水とを含有することを特徴とする。また、本発明のマツタケの人工栽培方法は、上記のマツタケの人工栽培用培地を用いるマツタケの人工栽培方法であって、人工栽培用培地にマツタケの菌糸を接種した菌糸含有培地を30℃以下の温度で培養する栽培培養工程を備え、上記栽培培養工程において、上記菌糸含有培地の表面を、人工栽培用培地より高いpHの、湿った被覆用材料(ピートモス)で覆うことを特徴とする。【選択図】なし