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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Mushroom spores can be thought of like plant seeds — though the fungal spores aren’t technically seeds, mushrooms develop and grow from them. The first step is harvesting the spores.

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

Kits make it easier than ever to grow your own shiitakes, pink oyster, lion's mane mushrooms and more.

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 ...

Here’s what to know about mushrooms popping up all over the city With the heavy rains, they are everywhere. But should you get rid of them?