For ages, man has eaten Oyster Mushrooms as a gustatory delight, some even to the point of intoxication like medicine men and other people out for a good time. But there is more to these wonderful plants than meet the eye.
For one thing, they’re Mother Nature’s recyclers. After animals and plants die, they decompose them back to dust so that they can be used again to bring about new life. The stuff they decompose isn’t limited to plants and animals, though. They can also feed on plastic, just like the Pestalotiopsis microspora, a fungus discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon that has an appetite for polyurethane.