NB: found and photographed in the wild.
I thought how pretty these pearl oyster mushrooms were with their soft, gentle colours and delicate frills/gills. Here they are, after being harvested, resting on the tree where they had been found.
Pearl oyster mushrooms are an edible fungi; one of the most widely consumed mushrooms around the globe.
The common name comes from their oyster-shaped cap and very short (or completely absent) stem.
In a natural environment, one can find oyster mushrooms in autumn, as these were, in south-west Pennsylvania.
These caps were small, no bigger than 6 cm diameter.
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