- Cap expanded, funnel-shaped to shell-shaped, white to yellowish-white.
- Gills decurrent, whitish.
- Stem short, lateral, or absent.
Pleurotoid agarics
Pale Oyster
Pleurotus pulmonarius
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows on deciduous wood and on dead and living trunks of deciduous trees.
Notes
Edible and good, with the same food value and flavour profile as Pleurotus ostreatus.
Similar species
Pleurotus ostreatus has a darker grey-blue to grey-brown cap, edible.
Pleurotus dryinus has a matt, felt-like to finely scaly upper cap surface and usually a thin ring on the stem.
Pleurotus dryinus has a matt, felt-like to finely scaly upper cap surface and usually a thin ring on the stem.
