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Pleurotus_2024-06-25 SW Michigan USA A view of a sampling from here:<br /> <br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/161714/pleurotus_2024-06-24_sw_michigan_usa.html" title="Pleurotus_2024-06-24 SW Michigan USA"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/11710/161714_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1763596810&Signature=s8UzgTzGmG5l9aWaN6k8klM60vA%3D" width="114" height="152" alt="Pleurotus_2024-06-24 SW Michigan USA We found this astonishingly large fruiting at the base of an esker, next to a cedar swamp. I&#039;m going to stick my neck out and call it Pleurotus pulmonarius. Baroni in his &#039;Mushrooms of the NE US and E Canada&#039; field guide says that it is likely to be found on beech logs and there are quite a few gorgeous beech trees growing on this esker. <br /> <br /> A closer view:<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/161715/pleurotus_2024-06-25_sw_michigan_usa.html Geotagged,Lung Oyster,Pleurotus pulmonarius,Summer,United States" /></a></figure> Geotagged,Lung Oyster,Pleurotus pulmonarius,Summer,United States Click/tap to enlarge

Pleurotus_2024-06-25 SW Michigan USA

A view of a sampling from here:

Pleurotus_2024-06-24 SW Michigan USA We found this astonishingly large fruiting at the base of an esker, next to a cedar swamp. I'm going to stick my neck out and call it Pleurotus pulmonarius. Baroni in his 'Mushrooms of the NE US and E Canada' field guide says that it is likely to be found on beech logs and there are quite a few gorgeous beech trees growing on this esker. <br /> <br /> A closer view:<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/161715/pleurotus_2024-06-25_sw_michigan_usa.html Geotagged,Lung Oyster,Pleurotus pulmonarius,Summer,United States

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    Looks like happy monuplets plus one. Posted one year ago
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      I had to look that up but ever since, each time I remember, I grin Posted one year ago
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    Deleted Posted one year ago, modified one year ago

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The Lung Oyster

"Pleurotus pulmonarius" is a mushroom very similar to "Pleurotus ostreatus", the pearl oyster, but with a few noticeable differences. The caps of "pulmonarius" are much paler and smaller than "ostreatus" and develops more of a stem. "P. pulmonarius" also prefers warmer weather than "ostreatus" and will appear later in the summer.

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Similar species: Agaricales
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Uploaded Jun 27, 2024. Captured Jun 25, 2024 10:34 in GPH4+X4 Dowling, MI, USA.
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  • NIKON D850
  • f/1.0
  • 1/125s
  • ISO64
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.