Black Pearl Oyster Mushroom

Black Pearl Oyster Mushroom

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Scientific Name: Pleurotus Ostreatus - hybrid -

The Black Pearl Oyster, or the Black Pearl Oyster is an oyster variety mushroom hybrid originating in Japan, the result of a cross between a European and Asian Pleurotus ostreatus. As the Black Pearl King grows it first resembles a King Oyster and then matures into a Pearl Oyster appearance.

First utilized during World War I for subsistence and now grown commercially throughout the world for food, Black Pearl King can also be used for mycoremediation, which is an industrial technique using fungi to clean the environment.

BLACK PEARL HEALTH BENEFITS

This hybrid mushroom species possesses many nutritional and medicinal health benefits. For example, these mushrooms have a specific number of nutrients, including iron, calcium, potassium, selenium, and vitamins such as C, D, B1, B3, B5, and B12.