- Cap at first convex, then expanded, funnel-shaped to shell-shaped, grey-blue to grey-brown.
- Gills decurrent, white to greyish-white.
- Stem short, lateral, felt-hairy below.
Pleurotoid agarics
Oyster Mushroom
Pleurotus ostreatus
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows mainly on deciduous wood and standing dead or damaged deciduous trees in the southern Nordic region. Can rarely grow on conifer wood.
Notes
Good edible mushroom. Cultivated and sold as oyster mushroom in well-stocked food shops.
Similar species
May be confused with Panus conchatus, which is violet to yellow-brown, tough and inedible but not poisonous.
Pleurotus pulmonarius is a closely related edible mushroom with a paler cap.
Pleurotus dryinus has a matt to finely scaly cap and usually an indistinct ring on the stem, not an edible mushroom.
Pleurotus pulmonarius is a closely related edible mushroom with a paler cap.
Pleurotus dryinus has a matt to finely scaly cap and usually an indistinct ring on the stem, not an edible mushroom.
