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Oysters

Delicious oyster mushrooms grow throughout most of the year on all kinds of trees, learn to how to differentiate them from similar looking mushrooms with unknown edibility

Edible Oyster mushrooms will have all of these attributes:   

Compare Oyster Mushrooms to their most Common Look-Alikes

Pleurotus populinus mushrooms

Oyster

Gills: Crowded, smooth

Spores: Light brownish yellow 

Favorite Tree: Cottonwoods

Edibility:​🍽️

Sarcomyxa serotina mushrooms

Late Fall Oyster

Gills: Crowded, smooth

Spores: pale yellow

Favorite Trees: Birch, beach oak, maple, willow, alder

Edibility: ​🍽️

Panellus stipticus mushrooms

Bitter Oyster​

Gills: Crowded, smooth

Spores: White

Favorite Tree: Oak, birch, alder  

Edibility: ​⚠️

Phyllotopsis nidulans mushrooms

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Gills: Crowded, smooth

Spores: Pink

Favorite Trees: Well rotted wood

Edibility: ⚠️

Gewone oesterzwam mushrooms

Oyster

Gills: Crowded, smooth

Spores: Lilac

Favorite Tree: Alder

Edibility: ​🍽️

Pleurocybella porrigens mushrooms

Angel Wings

Gills: Crowded, smooth

Spores: white

Favorite Tree: Hemlock

Edibility: ​🍽️

Cheimonophyllum candidissimum mushrooms

​Snowy Oysterling

Gills: Widely spaced, smooth

Spores: white  

Favorite Tree: Hardwoods

Edibility: ​⚠️

Pleurotus pulmonarius mushrooms

Oyster

Gills: Crowded, smooth

Spores: white, yellowish, or lavender 

Favorite Tree: Conifers

Edibility: ​🍽️

Panellus longinquus mushroom

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Gills: Crowded, smooth

Spores: white  

Favorite Tree: Red alder, maple, and hemlock 

Edibility: ​⚠️

Lentinellus montanus mushrooms

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Gills: Sawtooth edges 

Spores: Cream to yellow/brown 

Favorite Tree: Conifers

​Edibility:⚠️

Detailed comparison of Oysters and their most common look-alikes

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