Golden Oyster Mushroom Liquid Culture Syringe

Yellow oyster mushrooms are not native to North America. Golden oyster mushrooms are native to the hardwood forests of eastern Russia, northern China, and Japan.  One concern among morel experts is, they are consuming specific elm tree resources that other native mushrooms (pheasant backs, mica caps, and wild enoki) could use.

Invasive or not, these are delicious mushrooms with a nutty-sweet taste and great texture. The true challenge, as with all oyster mushrooms, is harvesting before the bugs can invade.

Pleurotus citrinopileatus, the yellow or golden oyster mushroom (tamogitake in Japanese), is an edible gilled fungus. Native to eastern Russia, northern China, and Japan, the golden oyster mushroom is very closely related to P. cornucopiae of Europe, with some authors considering them to be at the rank of subspecies. In far eastern Russia, they are called iI'mak, is one of the most popular wild edible mushrooms.