Black Oyster: PO-BO

Here we have the slightly overgrown Black Oyster...this phenotype is a thing of beauty, forming almost eryngii like primordial mounds that give way to charcoal grey caps that expand upwards into a monochromatic cluster of pure myco-beauty. Given that this particular pleurotus is a hybrid of a Far Eastern and a European p. ostreatus, it has a wide fruiting temperature range (50F-70F) with king like stems and black/grey watercolor striped caps. In colder temps fruits develop dark grey caps and stark white stems, while in warmer temps a fuzzy growth of aerial mycelium that emerges from the cut in the block to form tiny pins that are a softer more p. eryngii like growth pattern and color.