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The golden oyster mushroom craze unleashed an invasive species – and a worrying new study shows it’s harming native fungi

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨the_artic_one@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨mycology@mander.xyz⁩

https://theconversation.com/the-golden-oyster-mushroom-craze-unleashed-an-invasive-species-and-a-worrying-new-study-shows-its-harming-native-fungi-259006

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  • tover153@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • magpie@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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