Oyster Mushrooms Information

Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) is a fungus that can be eaten including the group of Basidiomycota  and including Homobasidiomycetes  class. With the general characteristics of the fruit body is white until cream and semicircular hood with its head slightly concave. still allied with oyster mushrooms  Pleurotus  eryngii  and often known as King Oyster Mushroom.

 Oyster mushroom body has a stem that grows sideways (Pleurotus), and shaped like an oyster (ostreatus), and oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus have binomial names. Part of the mushroom cap has changed color from black, gray, brown, to white, with a surface almost smooth, 5-20 cm diameter smooth grooved a little dent. In addition, oyster mushrooms also have a rod-shaped spores measuring 8-11 × 3-4μm and white mycelia to grow rapidly.
The fungus was first cultivated in Germany as an act of subsistence during World War I and is now commercially grown across the world as food. However, the cultivation of oyster mushroom was first documented by Kaufert. Oyster mushrooms can also be used by industries for the purpose mycoremediation. Oyster mushrooms can be regarded as a fungus because it contains a statin drug such as lovastatin which works to reduce cholesterol.