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oyster mushroom

Pleurotus ostreatus

Photo by AnnaWhipkey
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Field Notes

Habitat:

large, white bracket mushrooms growing on hardwood logs

Species ID Suggestions

Oyster mushroom

Pleurotus ostreatus

Comments (5)

sure, i will look sometimes, right now i wanted to take a little break, maybe i come online in a few hours, otherwise will i surely come back this weekend
I would appreciate help with my other unidentified fungi if you have the time
you're welcome !! that would make the identification a little bit easier. Cap/gills-pores/stem/slimy-dry/ curled-spiked/ etc.. all those little details are sometimes very important. good luck for nice future fungi spottings.
Thanks AlexKonig, hope I remember to get underneath the mushroom in future spottings
ths isn't a "POLYPORE" , polypores have pores (example: "fomitopsis pinicola / red banded polypore" or "trametes versicolor / turkey tail fungi ) little tubes or pores at the underside of the cap !! this one, without having seen it, i suspect gills under the visible caps. My first thought was , "PLEUROTUS (maybe-->) ostreatus / the oyster mushroom" ( http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&cp=19&gs_id=2&xhr=t&q=pleurotus+ostreatus&safe=off&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1264&bih=568&wrapid=tljp132397372112800&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=cTzqTo-_Lc2hOoKgxboI ).

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PublishedAugust 23, 2011

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