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Our fungi identifications are courtesy of fungi expert Bob Cummings, who teaches in the Botany Department at Santa Barbara City College in the Biological Sciences. Before you ask, check to see if your fungus has been identified below.
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Mushroom
Can you identify this fungus?
Curator Response
Hi Rick,
We direct all our fungal queries to Bob Cummings, who teaches in the Botany Department at Santa Barbara City College in the Biological Sciences. Here's his response:
"This looks like an oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus. It's a saprophyte on hardwoods, common on our dead and downed live oak logs. Grows shelf-like, with reduced, eccentric stipe, gills and spores are white. It is listed in field guides as a good edible, but in my experience it needs to be well cooked, and even then might cause mild gastrointestinal symptoms."
