I have come across these plenty of times but I never tried to eat them. Have you ever given them a shot?
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Not yet but I probably will at some point. Wild oysters are better than cultivated so maybe these will be too.
Though with oysters the wild ones I'm eating are probably a different species than the cultivated. Someone sequenced a grocery store oyster for fun and it turned out to be something close to Pleurotus floridanus while the ones we have in the PNW are usually P. pulmonarius or sometimes P. ostreatus.

