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Oyster mushrooms

Pleurotus ostreatus

Description:

white gills. Pleurotus ostreatus?? http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES...

Habitat:

on a tree stump.

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6 Comments

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

Feedback on this mushroom is appreciated.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

@ Alex,it was difficult to peek at the gills because it is so tightly spaced. Sometimes I hesitate to touch mushrooms out of fear of inhaling the spores.
Looks like stretched leather.The biggest in the middle at least 10 cm for sure.
A Saprophyte for sure.
I will put all this info together and see what I can come up with.
Thankyou so much for your valuable feedback!

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

hi emma, that will get a long shot: 1 picture without any gill feature and dry caps. I will try: 1-basidiomyceta / 2- capped toadstoel / 3- maybe with gills /4 - cluster-growth / 5 center of the cap little darker - the rest light-brown, dark-cream / 6- on the second cap downward from the biggest.: a little area look a bit brown discolored. / 7- the cap rather snatch than krimp or decay by dry conditions / 8- saprophote, eating/growing on a log/wood. / 0- Was the biggest in the middle, maybe somewhat of 6-10 cm wide??
--searching on this condition in my (european mushroom) book i narrowed down: PHOLIOTA - Gummosa or alnicola
-- my feeling sys something like: genus Pluteus or collybia acervata (maybe you need to search some time , because my books are't up to date with the taxas and i have almost no references about usa mushroom accessible, except of the internet [ rogers mushrooms/mushroom expert/eol/wikip./mushroom observer/ ...etc] good luck emma but much further will i not come without the expierence of the actual spot. hope i will be more helpfull next time.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

any idea on what type of fungus?

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

thanks bird lady!

birdlady6000
birdlady6000 12 years ago

Really cool!

HemaShah
Spotted by
HemaShah

Concord, California, USA

Spotted on Nov 12, 2011
Submitted on Nov 12, 2011

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