WAIE (whatamieating.com)
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Plural: oyster mushrooms
Language: English
Description: The oyster mushroom is a quite fragile, light grey mushroom with good flavour, it has a cap with pronounced white gills which spreads out from a central stem. (If gathering mushrooms you must be absolutely certain what you have before you eat them as many are very poisonous.)
| Oyster mushrooms photographed in the lovely Union Square Market in Manhattan |
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Latin: Pleurotus ostreatus
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