Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, delicious and easy to grow at home from mushroom kits.

But this food craze has also unleashed an invasive species into the wild, and new research shows it’s pushing out native fungi.

In a study we believe is the first of its kind, fellow mycologists and I demonstrate that an invasive fungus can cause environmental harm, just as invasive plants and animals can when they take over ecosystems.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago*

We've known this for quite a while now, maybe a decade. When I first got into foraging I was told that the presence of golden oyster could often mean you'd only find golden oyster. Its obscenely overproductive in sone parts if the states

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago
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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I'm sitting on one of the 2016 starter spots, camping. Just picked a big bag of delicious golden oysters for dinner tonight. The first year I was here was 2018, and there were a few, but we picked a great many more tan/white oysters that year. My gut says this article is right, there used to be a much larger variety of mushrooms around here.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Many years ago I tried adding this to my grow schedule and thankfully it never got to spread spores, never even fruited. Its not that it wasn't a fast grower, it was pretty vigorous (which is likely a big part of the problem) - the mycelium smelled like a rotting carcass and I binned that shit so fast as soon as I figured out what the stench was. I tell everyone this so people are possibly swayed even if lot of people don't have this issue when growing them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Oysters are stronk. A lot of cursed bathroom mushroom images online are oysters.

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