-- field key --

6 Pleurotoid:  oyster mushroom group


Stem absent
 off-center (eccentric)


Cap fleshy to tough.

Stem absent, eccentric, or lateral.

Gills decurrent if short stem or stub-like stem present.

Veils absent.



Oyster mushroom
Pleurotus ostreatus
 another


another
 White oysterette
Cheimophyllum (Pleurotus) candidissimum


Elm oyster
Hypsizygus (Pleurotus) ulmarius
 another



Look-alikes include Lentinellus, Panellus, Crepidotus, etc.
Bear Lentinus
Lentinellus ursinus
 Ruddy Panus
Panus rudis


Late fall oyster
Panellus serotinus
 Luminescent Panellus
Panellus stipticus


Orange mock oyster -- pink spored
Phyllotopsis nidulans
 Stalkless Paxillus -- brown spored
Paxillus panuoides


brown spored
Crepidotus sp.
 same, from below


leathery look alike: Multicolor gill polypore
Lenzites betulina
 leathery look alike: Yellow-red gill polypore
Gloeophyllum sepiarium