• inasaba@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I would be wary, because these don’t appear to be growing on wood, and some of the photos make them appear to have a circular umbrella shape.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, with all the surrounding foliage, it’s kind of hard to tell what it’s growing out of. Please excuse me, as I am a novice in the mycology world, but is a circular umbrella shape not a characteristic found in oyster mushrooms?

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        1 year ago

        Generally oyster mushrooms grow out of a tree, usually hardwood, and I have only ever seen them with a shape like an oyster shell — meaning that they are not circular, but have a distinct “back.”

        The mushrooms in this picture also have a little circle on top where the stem meets the cap, something I have never seen on a oyster mushroom. And the gills don’t blend into the stem. I would say there is basically no chance of these being oyster mushrooms, unless they are some weird regional variant I am not familiar with.