The fibrous sugarcane waste bagasse is crushed and repurposed as a growing medium for exotic mushrooms. (ABC Landline: ...

Each log is made from recently felled aspen and poplar trees, and planted with organic oyster mushroom spores. All you have to do is soak the mushroom log and keep it in a damp, cool and dark place.

That does not sound fun, guy. The oyster mushroom, it turns out, has an appetite for flesh.Credit...Sheng-Chian Juan Supported by By Veronique Greenwood Consider the oyster mushroom. It’s a mild ...

Oyster mushrooms are the spore-filled reproductive structures of a fungus called Pleurotus ostreatus.

Kits are ideal for beginners as they contain everything you need, including a substrate (growing medium) inoculated with mushroom spores. Popular choices for home growing include oyster, shiitake ...

Carnivorous oyster mushrooms can kill roundworms with “nerve gas in a lollipop” Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ID'd the culprit as the volatile ketone 3-octanone.

The golden oyster mushroom, non-native to the US, is now found all over the country. Its proliferation is linked, in part, to at-home cultivation.

While spring may be the most popular season for Missouri mushroom hunting, some lesser-known fungi sprout during autumn.

Grow kits also offer a more controlled and predictable way to grow mushrooms, as the substrate and spores are already measured and prepared to the correct proportions.

Hunter Vargo, owner of Mountain View Mushrooms, pinches a king black pearl oyster mushroom in his grow room. The ancient Greeks used to think that the mushrooms were sent from Zeus by his ...

Growing mushrooms at home is more complicated than buying soil and seeds, but very doable with the help of premade kits. Here are expert tips on mushroom care.

While admitting that production has already returned to the capacity enjoyed before the Covid-19 pandemic, Puput reveals that oyster mushroom spores require up to a month to germinate depending on ...