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InvisibleClockCode
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Perhaps Oysters?
    #18862072 - 09/19/13 09:09 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)







So my friends and I were down at a creek the other day and we happen upon this fallen log with a ton of mushrooms growing out of it.  I immediately rushed back to the car and got my phone for some pictures.

"Hey man, what does this look like?"
"Dude it looks like a shell."
"Yuuuuup."

I suspect we found oyster mushrooms (or maybe some other pleurotus?) but I've never actually encountered one.  The photos I've seen online seem to match it pretty damn well but I figured I'd get a 2nd opinion.

Location: PNW, Oregon specifically.
Spores: I believe theyre white but i have an actual print developing at my friend's house.
Cap: creamy colored, sometimes a bit tan.
Gills: White and decurrent.

Other than that, it smells mushroomy and is quite rubbery.  I kept squeezing it and it did not fall apart, which I found intriguing.  Do wood loving mushrooms have a tendency to be more resilient than others?


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Re: Perhaps Oysters? [Re: ClockCode]
    #18862143 - 09/19/13 09:27 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

p. ostreatus is usualy more dark than this but im sure this is some kind of pleurotus.


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Re: Perhaps Oysters? [Re: mahniti]
    #18862167 - 09/19/13 09:33 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Oysters... Color depends on amount of sunlight... More sun, darker they are

Make sure you rinse the 'gills' out with a fine stream of water ... Little bugs love to hide in them


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Re: Perhaps Oysters? [Re: ClockCode]
    #18862172 - 09/19/13 09:33 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Definitely a pleurotus species. Most likely p. ostreatus, but what gives; I regard pleurotus as some sort of genetic soup in which man has tried to draw some clear lines that nature consequently uses to wipe its big, evolutionary butt with.


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Re: Perhaps Oysters? [Re: koraks]
    #18862191 - 09/19/13 09:38 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

That's a fascinating way to put that, koraks.  Though one could say that about almost any species as taxonomic definitions are pretty arbitrary and sometimes vague.

So would there be a good way to definitively identify this as ostreatus?  Or should I just leave it at Pleurotus?

Are most pleurotus edible?  I will google as I await sage shroomery advice.

EDIT: Okay so I've found Omphalotus nidiformis as a toxic look alike but they don't grow here.  It seems that most pleurotus are considered edible look alikes for Oysters?  This site I found referenced them as like "phoenix oysters" and a variety of different species, then called ostreatus "true oysters".

http://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/oyster-mushroom.html


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Re: Perhaps Oysters? [Re: ClockCode]
    #18862258 - 09/19/13 09:54 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Ah, don't pay attention to what I say, I'm a rambling fool.

I'd call these p. ostreatus and be happy with them sizzling in the pan with some garlic.


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InvisibleClockCode
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Re: Perhaps Oysters? [Re: koraks]
    #18862295 - 09/19/13 10:01 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

:dancer:


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Re: Perhaps Oysters? [Re: HarryL]
    #18862553 - 09/19/13 11:09 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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HarryL said:
Oysters... Color depends on amount of sunlight... More sun, darker they are

Make sure you rinse the 'gills' out with a fine stream of water ... Little bugs love to hide in them




That's interesting. It seems my observations are temperature/seasonal. The same patch can be pure white in the sspring and turn nearly brown in the winter


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Re: Perhaps Oysters? [Re: domesticgnome]
    #18862573 - 09/19/13 11:13 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I actually discovered a look alike, Pleurocybella porrigens that's been responsible for some poisonings in Asia.  I mean it's clear these aren't angel wings because they aren't white, but they look fairly close to a very white oyster.

I also discovered that the oysters actually eat the bugs that crawl into their gills, hence why people don't tend to eat them whole?  When the insects eat the flesh the hyphae regrows tissue around the insect and digests it. That I did not know.|

Im going to head back to the creek today and pick some more for dinner.  :grin:


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Re: Perhaps Oysters? [Re: koraks]
    #18862596 - 09/19/13 11:16 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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koraks said:
Definitely a pleurotus species. Most likely p. ostreatus, but what gives; I regard pleurotus as some sort of genetic soup in which man has tried to draw some clear lines that nature consequently uses to wipe its big, evolutionary butt with.



:super: i feel the same about the soup of Gymnopus and its related genera...:rolleyes:


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