🇬🇧 grey oyster mushroom - 🇩🇪 Austern-Seitling - 🇪🇪 Austerservik - 🇷🇺 Вёшенка обыкновенная 1/24/09—10/18/25
🆔 Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.) P.Kumm.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills, crowded, initially white to cream, becoming more pale-yellow or buff with age
ℹ️ Cap: Fan- to oyster-shaped, sometimes broadly convex or nearly flat in crowded clusters, margin lobed or wavy, surface smooth, velvety when fresh, colour white/grey/tan
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnate to decurrent
ℹ️ Stipe: Often short, lateral or eccentric, sometimes almost absent, white to pale, solid, may be offset or thin
⚪ Spore print white
🪵🍂 Saprobic on dead or dying wood of hardwoods (logs, stumps, trunks), shelf-like clusters, year-round
🍽️ Choice edible, widely cultivated and culinary valued
📏 Fruit body medium to large
📐 Cap ∅ 5–25 cm
🔪 Flesh white, firm, unchanging in colour when cut
🧪 No major reagent reaction
👃 Faintly almond-like
👅 Pleasant
🔬 Spores smooth, ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, ~8–12 × 3–4 µm, basidia 4-sterigmate, clamp connections present
🔤 Prominent wood-decaying agaric that forms broad, shelf-or fan-shaped caps clustered on dead hardwood logs or tree stumps
🇬🇧 grey oyster mushroom - 🇩🇪 Austern-Seitling - 🇪🇪 Austerservik - 🇷🇺 Вёшенка обыкновенная