Species
Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster mushroom)
Pleurotus ostreatus. Photo: (c) Niels, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Pleurotus ostreatus, the oyster mushroom or oyster fungus, is a common edible mushroom. It was first cultivated in Germany as a subsistence measure during World War I and is now grown commercially around the world for food. It is related to the similarly cultivated king oyster mushroom. Oyster mushrooms can also be used industrially for mycoremediation purposes.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Suborder: Pleurotineae
- Family: Pleurotaceae
- Genus: Pleurotus (Oyster mushrooms)
- Complex: Pleurotus ostreatus
- Species: Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster mushroom)
- Complex: Pleurotus ostreatus
- Genus: Pleurotus (Oyster mushrooms)
- Family: Pleurotaceae
- Suborder: Pleurotineae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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