Oudemansiella fungi growing

Oudemansiella

Maybe your future home will be built with mushrooms? Mushrooms are helping architects and engineers solve one the world’s biggest crises: climate change. Fungi are durable, biodegradable, and are proving to be a good alternative to more polluting building materials. Oudemansiellais a genus of fungi in the family Physalacriaceae. The genus contains about 15 species that are widely distributed in tropical and temperate regions. These species include Oudemansiella Canarii, Oudemansiella Australis and Oudemansiella Gigaspora. Another species, the Oudemansiella Mucida, also referred to as the Porcelain Fungus, is edible, although its slimy covering puts most people off the mushroom.

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