Straw Mushroom

Straw mushroom may refer to:

  • Volvariella volvacea, also known as the Paddy Straw Mushroom
  • Pleurotus ostreatus, also known as the Oyster Mushoom

Famous quotes containing the words straw and/or mushroom:

    “And then finally there’s your grandmother
    Sweeping the dust of the nineteenth century
    Into the twentieth, and your grandfather plucking
    A straw out of the broom to pick his teeth.”
    —Charles Simic (b. 1938)

    “I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)