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Elm oyster mushroom
Hypsizygus ulmarius
Foraging: Never eat a wild mushroom on a photo or an app’s word. Many deadly species look like edible ones.
About
Hypsizygus ulmarius, also known as the elm oyster mushroom, and less commonly as the elm leech. It has often been confused with oyster mushrooms in the Pleurotus genus but can be differentiated easily as the gills are either not decurrent or not deeply decurrent.
- Family
- Lyophyllaceae
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- Name
- Hypsizygus ulmarius
- Slug
- hypsizygus-ulmarius
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Lyophyllaceae
- Genus
- Hypsizygus
- Species
- ulmarius
- Wikidata QID
- Q111848
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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