Nigerian researchers grow a wild protein-rich mushroom on sawdust waste

A doctoral researcher at the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, has successfully cultivated Lentinus squarrosulus — a wild edible and medicinal mushroom native to tropical forests — using sawdust from mango, African breadfruit, and African pear trees. It grew fastest on African breadfruit sawdust, opening a path to year-round farming using forestry byproducts.