Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) serenely growing on a tree trunk in a forest. But nematodes beware! These oyster mushrooms want to eat you—and they have evolved a novel mechanism for ...

Fluorescent pseudomonads isolated from different lesions on caps and/or stipes of cultivated Pleurotus ostreatus were identified as strains of Pseudomonas tolaasii or showed the White Line Assay (WLA) ...

Life Oyster mushroom fungus uses nerve gas to paralyse and eat tiny worms The fungus that produces oyster mushrooms preys on tiny animals by releasing a paralysing nerve gas called 3-octanone ...

In 2020, study author Yen-Ping Hsueh and her team from Taiwan’s Academia Sinica found that P. ostreatus has a tiny, lollipop-shaped structure within the mushroom.

S. A. Redhead, Mycological Observations 15-16: On Omphalia and Pleurotus, Mycologia, Vol. 78, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 1986), pp. 522-528 ...

What is more, she says, despite their unsavoury diet the fungi in question, Pleurotus ostreatus (better known as oyster mushrooms), are safe to eat. To prove the point she has, indeed, eaten them.