Oyster mushroom

Amur oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus) or white oyster mushrooms are fungi food with semicircular hood like an oyster shell with the center slightly concave and white to cream. Oyster mushroom is a relative of the Pleurotus eryngii or King Oyster Mushroom.

Fruit body has a stem that grows sideways (Latin: Pleurotus) and shaped like an oyster (ostreatus), so the oyster mushroom has a Binomial name Pleurotus ostreatus. Part of the hood to change color from black, gray, brown, to white, with a nearly smooth surface, 5-20 cm in diameter. Smooth edge slightly sloping hood. Rod-shaped spores measuring 8-11 × 3-4μm. Miselia white and can grow quickly.

In the wild, oyster mushrooms can be found almost throughout the year in the forest in the cool mountainous regions. Visible fruit bodies piled on the surface of each tree that is decaying or main trunk of the tree was felled.

Mushroom cultivation is relatively simple. Oyster mushrooms are usually repair with planting medium sterile sawdust packed in plastic bags.

In addition to a mixture of different types of cuisine, oyster mushrooms is a statin drug raw materials. Oyster mushroom known to kill and digest nematodes are likely to be done to obtain nitrogen.