Lemon oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Pleurotaceae (Voshenkovye)
  • Genus: Pleurotus (Oyster mushroom)
  • Type: Pleurotus citrinopileatus (Oyster mushroom lemon)

Lemon oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) is a cap mushroom from the Ryadovkovy family, belongs to the genus Pleurotus (Pleurotus, Oyster mushroom).

External Description

Lemon oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) is a variety of ornamental and edible mushrooms, the fruiting body of which consists of a stem and cap. It grows in groups, with individual specimens growing together, forming a beautiful lemon-colored mushroom cluster.

Mushroom pulp is white in color and smells like flour. In young specimens, it is soft and tender, while in mature mushrooms it becomes rough.

The stem of the mushroom is white (in some specimens – with yellowness), comes from the central part of the cap. In mature mushrooms it becomes lateral.

The diameter of the cap is 3-6 cm, but in some specimens it can reach 10 cm. In young mushrooms, the cap is thyroid, in mature fruiting bodies a large depression appears on it, and a little later the cap becomes funnel-shaped, and its edges are lobed. The bright lemon color of the cap of overripe, old mushrooms fades and acquires a whitish hue.

The lamellar hymenophore consists of frequent and narrow plates, the width of which is 3-4 cm. They are slightly pinkish in color, descend on the leg in the form of lines. The spore powder is white, but many specimens have a pink-purple hue.

Grebe season and habitat

Lemon oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) grows in the southern part of Primorsky Krai, in mixed forests (with coniferous and broad-leaved trees), on living or dead elms. This fungus also develops well on elm deadwood, and in the northern regions and the middle vegetation belt it is also found on birch trunks. Lemon oyster mushrooms are widespread in the southern parts of the Far East, they are well known to the local population there and are used by them as edible mushrooms. Fruiting begins in May and ends in October.

Edibility

Lemon oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) is an edible mushroom. It has good taste qualities, it is used in salted, boiled, fried and pickled form. Lemon oyster mushroom can be dried. However, in mature fruiting bodies, only the cap is suitable for eating, since the stem of the fruiting body becomes fibrous and rough. In some specimens, a part of the cap above the stem is endowed with such qualities, so it also has to be cut out before cooking mushrooms for food. It is grown up in artificial conditions for the purpose of realization.

Similar types and differences from them

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