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Question: I was having an experiment wherein I'm going to use the photoflash of a digital camera to the growth of …

• Question

  I was having an experiment wherein I'm going to use the photoflash of a digital camera to the growth of an oyster mushroom. Does the mushroom I experimented is still edible?

  Answer

  Dear ayshiree, For what it may be worth, Go Botany is a website about wild plants that occur in New England. Fungi belong to a different kingdom of organisms (though they are often considered to be of the "flora" by many authors). To your questions: I would not be concerned about the edibility of the fungus based on the images you captured. What I would be concerned about is the substrate it was grown on. If it is clean substrate that is appropriate for this fungus, then I would consider eating the fungus once properly cooked.