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. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with mycologist Aishwarya Veerabahu about the rapid spread of golden oyster mushrooms across ...

While most cultivated mushrooms remain harmless, golden oysters have spread rapidly since escaping cultivation and are now ...

Researchers found that trees in Wisconsin that had become hosts to the eye-catching species hosted only half the fungal ...

Many mushroom species have been cultivated in North America for decades without becoming invasive species threats. However, golden oyster mushrooms have been different.

More fresh air, for example, leads to bigger oyster mushroom caps and smaller, shorter stems,” Foote said. “Different amounts of light will affect their color." ...

However, we found that invasive golden oyster mushrooms, a wood decay fungus, can threaten forests’ fungal biodiversity and harm the health of ecosystems that are already vulnerable to climate change ...