The mushrooms often are imported for do-it-yourself growers, but they have made it to the wild and are spreading quickly.

In the Michigan DNR press release, Veerabahu and colleagues sampled fungal communities in forests around Madison, Wisconsin, ...

A trendy species of mushroom could be a new threat to Michigan’s forests.The golden oyster mushroom is native to Asia. But ...

A popular species of edible mushroom, golden oyster, has spread rapidly throughout the United States since escaping from cultivation into the wild. Now, a new study from researchers at the ...

Cesaria P. Eugenio, Neil A. Anderson, The Genetics and Cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus, Mycologia, Vol. 60, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1968), pp. 627-634 ...

The mushrooms were almost certainly introduced to the United States by humans, Ms. Veerabahu said. Golden oyster mushrooms and growing kits for them are sold in stores, and the fungus may have ...