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Oyster Mushrooms
Released varieties
- Mushroom has a broad, fan or oyster-shaped capspanning 5–15 cm
- White color mushroom
- Margin is smooth and often somewhat lobed or wavy.
- The flesh is white, firm, and varies in thickness due to stipearrangement
- The gillsof the mushroom are white
- The spore printof the mushroom is white
- Fruiting body is fan or oyster shaped and spanning 5-20 cm
- Light grayish brown color
- Margin is entire
- The flesh is white, firm and thick.
- The gillsof the mushroom are white
- The spore printof the mushroom is white
- Cap spatulate to flabelliform,3-35 cm wide and having very short stem
- Pink colored and fading with age to cream to white
- Margin is slightly corrugated
- Flesh is light pink and thin
- The gillsof the mushroom are light pink
- The spore printof the mushroom is white
Gajamuthu
2006
Makandura White
"Makandura white" released in 2015.
Description of variety:
White colour
High yield - 600-850 g / 01 kg media
- 135-150 g / mushroom
Good keeping quality - 03-04- days (open)
- 10-12 days (Refrigerator)
Good taste