Pleurotus white, cream, or greyish-lilac spores; stature: Pleurotoid. Pleurotus is a difficult genus to identify using just macroscopic features. Two species are commonly collected. Pleurotus ostreatus with its tan to whitish, glabrous pileus and P. dryinus with its fibrillose-scaly, white pileus and its fibrillose partial veil.

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