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Pink oyster mushrooms are a commonly found specimen in central Mexican communities. It is the most well known mushroom in Tlayacapan, Morelos, with 98.8% of surveyed locals being able to identify it. The species is collected by families and then often sold at vendors markets.
Called pinkgills in English, basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are typically agaricoid (gilled mushrooms), though a minority are gasteroid. All have salmon-pink basidiospores which colour the gills at maturity and are angular under a microscope. The genus is large, with almost 2000 species worldwide.
Calocybe carnea is a species of fungus in the family Lyophyllaceae. It has small pink-capped mushrooms with white gills and can be found in grassy meadows, fields, or on lawns from spring to autumn in Europe and North America. Its common names include pink fairhead [1] and pink domecap. [2]
A casual observer may mistake it for an edible field mushroom (Agaricus campestris), [27] but this species has a ring on the stipe, pink gills that become chocolate-brown in maturity, and a dark brown spore print. [36] The poorly known North American species E. albidum resembles E. sinuatum but is likewise poisonous. [35]
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]
The mushroom has a coral-pink cap up to 5 cm (2 in) in diameter, though sometimes larger, which is initially convex and later flattens and becomes a more brick-like colour with maturity. Often slimy or sticky as with other members of the genus, its cap lacks the blackish markings of the related G. glutinosus . [ 5 ]
Ramaria botrytis, commonly known as the clustered coral, the pink-tipped coral mushroom, or the cauliflower coral, is an edible species of coral fungus in the family Gomphaceae. Its robust fruit body can grow up to 15 cm (6 in) in diameter and 20 cm (8 in) tall, and resembles some marine coral.
Russula is a very large genus composed of around 750 worldwide species of ectomycorrhizal mushrooms. They are typically common, fairly large, and brightly colored – making them one of the most recognizable genera among mycologists and mushroom collectors.