NOUN | plant | Pleurotus ostreatus, oyster mushroom, oyster fungus, oyster agaric | edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood |
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Meaning | edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood. | |
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Synonyms | oyster mushroom, oyster fungus, oyster agaric | |
Member of | Pleurotus, genus Pleurotus | agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem |
Broader | agaric | A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside |
Catalan | orellana, Pleurotus ostreatus |
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