Buy White Oyster Mushroom Growing Kit What are White Oyster Mushrooms? White oyster mushroom is an easily cultivated mushroom appropriate for beginners, because of its vigorous mycelium growth. The mushroom can efficiently compete with other fungi while growing on a substrate and is thus resistant to molds. Caps of the white oyster mushroom are milky white with a silky surface and can grow up to a couple of 10 cm in diameter. For the cultivation of white oyster mushroom, wood can be inoculated either with grain spawn. The mushroom is considered as rapidly growing and extremely aggressive fungus. If inoculation is carried out early in the spring and wood is left in a warm and shaded place, mushrooms are expected to grow late in the autumn. Usually, mushrooms start growing when the environment temperature drops, and precipitations are more frequent (most often during the fall). Cultivation on wood is most successful when carried out outdoors, where the spawn has enough
About the product This easy-to-spot mushroom is often mistaken for the common oyster until there is a closer examination (common oyster gills are decurrent, elm oysters are not decurrent). Its Latin name Hypsi means "high" or "on high" and zygus means a "yoke" Hypsizygus, then, referring to the position of this mushroom often high in the tree. Ulm refers to "elm" indicating one of the common substrates for this fungus. The color of the fruiting bodies often depends on their substrate and habitat. Caps can measure anywhere from 5 to 15 cm wide. They are white to buff or tan in color and sometimes developing a pattern of cracks with age. The stipe is white to off white; dry; smooth; stout; and it develops off-center to nearly central from the cap. They are often mistaken for being the common oyster. Common Name: Elm Oyster Mushrooms Scientific Name: Hypsizygus ulmarius How to use this product: Culinary mushrooms, edibl