Oyster Mushroom
Description
Cap tongue- or shell-shaped to fan-shaped, stem absent, 4-20 x 6-20 cm, matt, creamy beige or grey-lilac to violet-brown or steel-blue to lilac-black.
Gills white to cream. Flesh white to grey-white. Taste mild. Smell mushroomy-fishy.
Edible.
Occurrence
Common on living and dead trunks, stumps and branches of deciduous trees (Poplar, Beech, Willow, Birch), rarely on those of coniferous trees, in woods, parks, avenues and wooded banks. Autumn to winter.
Saprophyte. (Parasitic.)