Volvariella volvacea - Straw mushroom

Straw mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) is a fast-fruiting tropical mushroom grown across Southeast Asia on paddy (rice) straw, often as a sideline to rice production.¹

Inputs

• Substrate: paddy (rice) straw is the standard and highest-yielding choice; cotton waste, dried banana leaves, and oil palm bunch waste are also used, though yields run lower than with paddy straw.¹
• Simple method: thoroughly moistened paddy straw left in a shaded spot (e.g. under trees), no building or equipment required.¹

Outputs

• Human food: a market mushroom crop integrated into rice-growing smallholdings across Viet Nam, Indonesia, and Malaysia.¹

Type

• Edible fungi

Footnotes

1. Marshall, E., Nair, N.G. (2009). Make Money by Growing Mushrooms. FAO Diversification Booklet 7, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, p. 23. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴