Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, ...

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

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An oyster mushroom’s smooth, pale cap resembles an oyster — hence the name — but the froth of off-white gills underneath can be as exuberantly frilly as a ballet skirt.

Assertion: The shape of the mushroom's flat cap mimics that of the flat side of an oyster shell. Truth: Peek underneath to the mushroom's gill-riddled surface and the illusion is quickly lost.

Oyster mushrooms feature in cuisines around the world, but they should be off the menu for hungry worms—which these delicious fungi kill and devour with abandon. Now researchers finally know how ...

Mushrooms usually sprout from dark, damp forest floors or bloom on fallen tree branches. But now, a startup in Abu Dhabi called Below Farm is growing them in the desert.