{"id":31907,"date":"2025-07-16T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31907"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:24:40","slug":"this-golden-fungus-is-spreading-wildly-in-north-americas-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31907","title":{"rendered":"This Golden Fungus Is Spreading Wildly in North America\u2019s Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The golden oyster mushroom, a tasty species native to Asia, has proliferated in states around the Great Lakes and may crowd out native species, a new study shows.<\/p>\n

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For a few years, foragers and fungi enthusiasts around the Midwest have been seeing something yellow.<\/p>\n

The butter-colored flushes of the golden oyster mushroom are difficult to miss. They bloom on dead or decaying trees, and they have become profuse in states around the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n

The fungi, which are native to Asia, are good to eat and easy to grow. But a new study shows that they may also be sapping the resources of native mushrooms. And their footprint is spreading fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone would hesitate to call it invasive,\u201d said Aishwarya Veerabahu, a mycologist and doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an author of the study<\/a>, published Wednesday in the journal Current Biology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She and her colleagues call the golden oyster \u201ca literal and figurative bright yellow warning\u201d in the study, adding that \u201cas of now, there are no management strategies available to control its spread.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mushrooms were almost certainly introduced to the United States by humans, Ms. Veerabahu said. Golden oyster mushrooms and growing kits for them are sold in stores, and the fungus may have spread from backyards or compost piles.<\/p>\n

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The golden oyster mushroom, a tasty species native to Asia, has proliferated in states around the Great Lakes and may crowd out native species, a new study shows.For a few years, foragers and fungi enthusiasts around the Midwest have been seeing something yellow.The butter-colored flushes of the golden oyster mushroom are difficult to miss. They bloom on dead or decaying trees, and they have become profuse in states around the Great Lakes.The fungi, which are native to Asia, are good to eat and easy to grow. But a new study shows that they may also be sapping the resources of native mushrooms. And their footprint is spreading fast.\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone would hesitate to call it invasive,\u201d said Aishwarya Veerabahu, a mycologist and doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an author of the study, published Wednesday in the journal Current Biology.She and her colleagues call the golden oyster \u201ca literal and figurative bright yellow warning\u201d in the study, adding that \u201cas of now, there are no management strategies available to control its spread.\u201dThe mushrooms were almost certainly introduced to the United States by humans, Ms. Veerabahu said. Golden oyster mushrooms and growing kits for them are sold in stores, and the fungus may have spread from backyards or compost piles.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31909,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31910,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31907\/revisions\/31910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}