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Pleurotus is a genus of gilled mushrooms which includes one of the most widely eaten mushrooms, P. ostreatus. Species of Pleurotus may be called oyster , abalone , or tree mushrooms , and are some of the most commonly cultivated edible mushrooms in the world. [ 1 ]
Pleurotus ostreatus, the oyster mushroom, oyster fungus, hiratake, or pearl oyster mushroom is a common edible mushroom. [2] It is one of the more commonly sought wild mushrooms, though it can also be cultivated on straw and other media.
Pleurotus eryngii is the largest species in the oyster mushroom genus, Pleurotus, which also contains the oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus. It has a thick, meaty white stem and a small tan cap (in young specimens). Its natural range extends from the Atlantic Ocean through the Mediterranean Basin and Central Europe into Western Asia and India ...
The golden oyster mushroom, like other species of oyster mushroom, is a wood-decay fungus.In the wild, P. citrinopileatus most commonly decays hardwoods such as elm. [2] [3] The first recorded observation of naturalized golden oysters in the United States occurred in 2012 on Mushroom Observer, perhaps a decade after the cultivation of the species began in North America, and they have been ...
The pink oyster mushroom grows in tropical and subtropical areas, growing as far north as Japan and as far south as New Zealand. [2] In Hawai'i, pink oyster mushrooms often grow on fallen coconuts, and on the stalks of palm fronds, though they can also be found on fallen ōhiʻa branches in the forests of the Hawaiian island Kaua'i.
Pleurotus eryngii var. ferulae (commonly known as Ferula mushroom) is a subspecies of the king trumpet mushroom (Pleurotus eryngii) that usually grows in the dried roots of the poisonous Ferula plant in the east of Turkey, northwest of Iran and Sardinia.
The real Pleurotus sajor-caju is a completely separate species of mushroom, which was returned to the genus Lentinus by Pegler in 1975. However, the name Pleurotus sajor-caju has been misapplied so often, even in scientific texts, that confusion about the species name is persistent. [1] Lentinus sajor-caju (Fr.) Fries.
Pleurotus tuber-regium, the king tuber mushroom, is an edible gilled fungus native to the tropics, including Africa, Asia, and Australasia. [1] It has been shown to be a distinct species incapable of cross-breeding and phylogenetically removed from other species of Pleurotus.