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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 ...
Pleurotus citrinopileatus, the golden oyster mushroom (tamogitake in Japanese), is an edible gilled fungus. Native to eastern Russia , northern China , and Japan , the golden oyster mushroom is very closely related to P. cornucopiae of Europe , with some authors considering them to be at the rank of subspecies . [ 2 ]
Pleurotus allochrous (Pers.) Sacc. & Traverso 1911; Pleurotus alocasiae Corner 1981; Pleurotus alveolus Velen. 1927; Pleurotus anas Overeem 1927; Pleurotus anastomosans Rick 1930; Pleurotus angustatus (Berk. & Broome) Sacc. 1887; Pleurotus arbuticola Pilát 1935; Pleurotus armeniacus Corner 1981; Pleurotus arrhenioides Henn. & E. Nyman 1899 ...
Pleurotus calyptratus, (syn. Lentodiopsis calyptrata, Tectella calyptrata) is a species of fungus from the family Pleurotaceae. It has a distinctive delicate veil on young fruiting bodies. [ 2 ] Phylogenetic research has shown that while it belongs to P. djamor-cornucopiae clade, it forms its own intersterility group.
Pleurotus eryngii (also known as king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, eryngi, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes [Note 1], trumpet royale, aliʻi oyster) is an edible mushroom native to Mediterranean regions of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, but also grown in many parts of Asia.
Pleurotus albidus is a species of edible [14] [15] fungus in the family Pleurotaceae. Found in Caribbean, Central America and South America, [ 16 ] it was described as new to science by Miles Joseph Berkeley , and given its current name by David Norman Pegler in 1983.
Perhaps the best known member is the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus. Many species in the genera Pleurotus and Hohenbuehelia are nematophagous, that is, they derive nutrition by consuming nematodes. This is made possible by hyphae that may have adhesive knobs that attach to passing nematodes and secrete nematotoxic compounds. [2] [3]