White Oyster Mushroom

Tradd brakes for mushrooms. He finds this pretty white oyster mushroom off of a busy highway, mushroom is inedible because it is growing by a busy road, but it is definetely clonable.

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Education

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• oyster mushroom
• mushroom mountain
• pleurotus ostreatus

[BADDOOKUS]

I picked some mushrooms in indiana in the fall that were growing around the bases of trees. I thought they were Oyster mushrooms but when i tasted them i got a burnig sensation in my mouth. They looked like the one you have there but whiter and flatter. Did i pick something poisonous/

[sporeprints]

@BADDOOKUS were the mushrooms woody, did they have gills on the underside or pores? If you can describe it to me, I can try to help.

[sdales3]

Most definitely hen of the woods. Oysters are a shelf/bracket mushrooms and do grow on downed logs but never buried. The only type of oyster the grows underground is the black jelly oyster. It grows under rotting logs so you have to be looking for it to find it. What you found here could also be a black staining polypore. Hard to tell in picture which, but a nice find none the less.

[sporeprints]

@sdales3 Definitely not a hen of the woods, and it is not a black staining polypore either. This oyster mushroom cluster was growing on roots of the tree you see in the background. Not all roots are burried. Also maitake and black staining polypore don't have gills, and these oyster mushrooms did. Watch the video again, and you will see that the mushrooms on this cluster move around, which would never happen on a maitake or BSP. Thanks for your comment.

[cow4652]

i am the milkgirl of mushroom kindness, i will leave an extra pint

[iiaaiiaannaaiiaaii]

@vorkev1 Actually, it's better for the mycelium to pull them out rather then cut them off; cutting them off leaves a mass of protein and water mass which rots easily and that rot can spread into the mycelium. Think of the mushroom (fruiting body) as a fruit and the mycelium as an underground (or in wood) tree.

[sporeprints]

@vorkev1 Two spores land on a tree, they germinate and wait until the tree's immune system has been compromised.They colonize it, and start eating it/breaking it down. Once the whole piece of wood has been colonized, they will produce fruit when they sense a temperature change, a pressure change, etc. The mushrooms body is threaded all through this piece of wood, so pulling the mushrooms off will not hurt the production. That piece of wood will fruit until it has completely broken down the log:)

[vorkev1]

@sporeprints i understand that but i hope you can understand my point that the least amount of destervence to the system si the best for a regroth.

[sporeprints]

@vorkev1 It is OK to pull them out, the mycelium (mushroom's body) is an underground network.