Oysters
Scientific name: Pleurotus
Oysters
Scientific name: Pleurotus
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Description
Oysters are gilled mushrooms with soft, fleshy, fruiting bodies. They grow shelflike on wood, mostly hardwood trees. Oysters are generally pale-spored mushrooms that produce white, yellowish, pale lilac, or pinkish spores. The genus includes some commercially important edible species, cultivated and consumed across the globe.
Species of Oysters
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Scientific Classification
Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
The tree mushroom family Genus
Oysters