Directory of Pleurotaceae Resources

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Pleurotaceae is a family of fungi that contains the 4 genera Agaricochaete, Geopetalum, Hohenbuehelia and Pleurotus, the oyster mushroom.

Resources in This Category

• California Fungi: Pleurotus ostreatus

  http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Pleurotus_ostreatus.html
  Commonly known as the oyster mushroom, photograph and description of this edible species, further comments and links to other photographs.

• Hohenbuehelia petaloides

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/aug2000.html
  Article by Tom Volk on this interesting fungus, which besides living on rotting wood, also traps and eats nematodes.

• Pleurotus ostreatus

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct98.html
  Article by Tom Volk on this edible fungus, the Oyster Mushroom, some other fungi with which it might be confused, and some other Pleurotus species.

• Pleurotus ostreatus

  http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/sem088.aspx
  A scanning electron micrograph image of a portion of the hymenium.

• Pleurotus ostreatus: Oyster Mushroom

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCELLANEOUS/july01.htm
  Photograph and information on this species, the fruitbody of which can produce a hundred million spores an hour.

 

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