Saturday, November 7, 2015

Oyster Mushrooms on Logs



I found these mushrooms after a lash of heavy rains  for two or three consecutive days, in chennai this october. 
It grew in my backyard. I was curious to know what type of mushrooms they are.
I googled and found that these can be oyster mushrooms which belong to a variety called Pleurotus.
Pleurotus is a genius of gilled mushrooms which includes one of the most widely eaten mushrooms, 
P.ostreatus. Species of Pleurotus may be called oysterabalone, or tree mushrooms, and are some
 of the most commonly cultivated edible mushrooms in the world
 Most species of Pleurotus are white-rot fungi on hardwood trees, although some also decay conifer wood


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