Olive Oysterling

The Olive Oysterling (Panellus serotinus) is a delicious wild mushroom found throughout Europe and can be added to soups, stews and stir fries for maximum flavour!

Mushrooms with greenish, overlapping fans or oyster-shaped caps that grow on both coniferous and deciduous trees. Their fruit bodies appear as greenish-tinted fruit bodies or oyster-shaped caps; the mushrooms themselves have dense, rubbery textures; however, they are nontoxic.

Early Life and Education

Olive oysterling mushrooms are commonly found during fall and winter. Their rubbery texture resembles that of squid or octopus and readily accept flavors; making this mushroom perfect for recipes but requiring long cooking times.

Oyster mushrooms grow as fan or oyster-shaped caps on wood of coniferous and deciduous trees, with bright orange-yellow gills underneath that are easily distinguished from one another by their cooling climate conditions. Individual specimens or clustered shelves of them can be found, their colors ranging from light green to deep green hues, with an olive tint.

Prior to 2019, this mushroom was known as Panellus serotinus or Pleurotus serotinus and had several name changes before finally landing at Sarcomyxa serotina in 2019. Cultivation involves inoculating hardwood logs such as sugar maple, beech or oak with this strain.

Professional Career

Olive Oysterling mushrooms are grown for medicinal use. Similar in appearance and taste to true oyster mushrooms, Olive oysterlings feature a greenish tint where their cap meets their stem, giving this cool weather mushroom its signature greenish hue. Olive grows best on hardwood logs and can be inoculated using Shiitake inoculants. Olive oysterlings make excellent truffle replacements. Olive supports internal talent with programs like Choose Growth in Leadership and Women in Leadership that assist managers to take on new roles and advance their careers.

Personal Life

Panellus serotinus, more commonly known as olive oysterlings, are edible mushrooms found during late autumn and winter on coniferous and deciduous trees’ wood. When cooked it becomes buttery in texture with an intense flavor resembling that of Chicken of the Woods.

Cultivation of this mushroom is straightforward. For maximum yield, choose hardwood logs such as sugar maple, beech or oak to grow it on. Or use the Totem Method by placing fruiting logs horizontally close to the ground – ideal conditions!

Our cultures are rigorously tested to ensure purity and guaranteed clean and viable conditions, packaged with full instructions for use and can be purchased either individually or as part of a kit.

Net Worth

Olive oysterling (Panellus serotinus, commonly referred to as mukitake), also known as mukitake, is a thick-gilled mushroom with an oyster-shell shape found fresh or dried. This cool weather fruiting fungus typically thrives on hardwood logs such as sugar maple, beech and oak and uses the Totem Method of cultivation before fruiting when temperatures dip below 40deg F in fall. When sauteed olive oysterling mushrooms have a buttery texture reminiscent of Chicken of the Woods while medicinal uses include anti-inflammatory benefits. Olive oysterling mushrooms can either be grown in greenhouses or indoors using additional lighting.