
Oysters
Scientific name: Pleurotus
Oysters
Scientific name: Pleurotus


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


Scientific Classification

Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
The tree mushroom family Genus
Oysters