How to Identify Oyster Mushrooms
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video we take a look at a small group of Oyster mushrooms and we go over their identification features, as well as discuss what kind of trees they seem to prefer. The Oyster mushroom, or Pleurotus ostreatus, is a common mushroom that is commonly foraged in the spring and fall and varies in size from an inch or two all the way up to six inches or so.
There are several mushrooms in the Pleurotus genus several of which are edible, however none are rated higher than this species. Frequently growing on Tulip Poplars, and sometimes Maple in my experience; the Oyster is named for it's shape and not it's taste.
A small mushroom that grows in groups or clusters, it has a fruiting body that is shaped like an oyster with generally a tan cap. Oftentimes when young the cap will start fully white, and fade towards the tip to a tan color. This is a shelf mushroom which has gills. Thankfully the gills are unlike most gilled fungi in the sense that these gills are forked, or decurring and run down the stem.
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Those are flat crep, I noticed right away due to the edges and coloring. Oyster mushroom edges only do that when larger or older. cooking up some just gathered right now.
Thanks for the video. I found a bunch today. I am an expert on edible wild plants, but I am not very knowledgeable of mushrooms. Tonight's dinner will be omelets with wild oyster mushrooms, and tomorrow night spaghetti with clam, oyster mushroom, and portabelli.
Angel wings tend to grow on conifer trees (pines). So watch out for white shrooms on pine trees that look like oyster mushroom!!!
Sorry folks, he is whispering because the smurfs are asleep.
Them damn smurfs will ruin a mushroom hunt, for sure! Thanks for commenting Kiarah!
And some of them live in the larger of the shrooms 😉
Shh. The mushrooms are asleep. You can tell, because theyre sporing
Because the mushrooms might run away, duh!
I was deer hunting while filming this video, that's why I'm whispering. Would be crazy if the mushrooms could run away though, it'd make it so much harder to hunt them!
Duh!🙄
Thoes look like angel wings
I have something like this at my house, but they're small about the tip of my finger. they look like clam shell and gills underneath.
shuuuu be quiet they will attack
Lol, or I'll scare off the deer I was hunting.
The first thing you u say is you’re deer hunting and the first comment is a woman asking why you’re whispering smh.......
I know right!? The internet is a good place for context to get lost unfortunately. Thanks for commenting Cullen!
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Why are you whispering? LOL
I was deer hunting when I filmed this and had to be quiet as I could.
Trillium: Wild Edibles cool... Thanks for replying. I love your informative videos.
You're welcome, and thank you for watching and liking my videos!
Pamela Walker because I don't want your husband too catch us... sshhhh
Please do speak up. I couldn't hear you with the volume at 100%
Those look like angel wings......
Why are you whispering? They gonna run off?
Why are you whispering????
are you filming in the library?
excellent.
You can find oysters on beech, normally hardwood, not normally on pine trees.
I think I found some of these in a forest out westward. Thanks for the video I hope the ones I found are good on the stomach.
Awesome, I've seen these mushrooms before but I haven't harvested or eaten them yet. Definitely on the menu tho during mushroom season this year. Lol.
question. why does he have to whisper? I can't hear most of it :)
Hello, thank you for your video. Please tell me how to find out it's not angel wings mushrooms?
First off, I love your name as I named my cat Simba, (not original I know). Angel wings will grow on coniferous wood like pine and hemlock trees and Oysters will grow on hardwoods like poplar, maple, oak, and more. Another easy way is that angel wings don't normally grow in cluster like oysters do and usually grow stalk less. Where as Oysters have a very prominent stalk to them. Hope this helps a bit and thanks for asking!
@@TrilliumWildEdibles thank you, yes, it helps. I recently went for mushroom hunting near mt. Adams in Washington state. Last year I picked very good white chanterelle mushrooms, but couldn't find same spot where was it. And this year I saw this mushrooms that looks like oysters, even smell was similar, but something inside myself was telling me that something is wrong with this oysters. Thank you for your video and reply, I appreciate it :))
I just found some in my area and been scanning from one video from another and your video really confirms that what I found is not oister mushroom. Im not an expert but i remember my grandmother back in our village cooking mushroom look like this..
Found a MASSIVE AMOUNT in my local park
The deer can hear you! 😁😆😂🤣😁😄😃😀😉😁
I found a mess of them today😋
Congratulations! They are yummy. The summer ones can have problems with bugs, especially little black beetles sometimes which can make them tedious to clean but still very good!
@@TrilliumWildEdibles ... Thank you! And good luck hunting this year!! I love venison 😋 it's probably my favorite meat after walleye....
Nice radio voice
These look too white in some shots and are too small to give a definitive identification. They look like the poisonous angel wings in some parts of your video.
In the early fall where I live we get a lot of white colored oysters, the ones in the summer are really bright. Usually ones like this turn brown with age. The angel wings I find are generally much smaller than this and usually have a flatter cap. Opposed to this that has an undercurl on the margin of the cap. I didn't think it was an oyster at first because there was only one, but then again I've seen them growing singularly before though it is rare. Thanks for commenting Stephen!
@@TrilliumWildEdibles ahh. What do they taste like? Did you eat them?
I didn't eat this one in the video because there was only this tiny one, plus I was deer hunting that day. The ones I gather in the summer are delicious, they taste like typical oysters to me. Really no difference in flavor. However the white ones in the summer are usually filled with black beetles that are a royal pain to remove because they burrow into the flesh of the mushroom. Also I find they are much softer than the brown variety and don't always hold their shape easily. I still hunt for them when the season presents itself and love to use them with chicken dishes and Asian style dishes.
@@TrilliumWildEdibles thanks for your time. Great stuff.
No problem, glad you're enjoying it!
YOU NEED TO DO ASMR!!! OMG! Voice + you rubbing the shrooms-LOVE IT!
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Why are you whispering
I was deer hunting when I filmed this.
Not easy enough to listen to because it's so quiet. Had to shut it off at the beginning.
Stop whispering
jeez you take way to long to go through your identification....
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Dad man nice spam