Oyster Mushroom Framed Print
Oyster Mushroom Framed Print
Size & framing
12 × 18 in overall, in a 0.75 in wood frame (Black or Red Oak). The plate sits on an ivory sheet with a border of about an inch, like a matted print.
Printed on 189 g/m² enhanced matte paper, behind an acrylic front. Hanging hardware is included.
Prefer to frame it yourself? It also comes unframed.
A shelf of shell-shaped caps on dead wood.
The print
- The full plate with its name, legend and credits, re-rendered from the source scan at print size, not enlarged from a shirt file.
- Restored from a library scan of the original book; nothing redrawn.
- Keep out of direct sunlight; dust the frame with a dry cloth.
Shipping & production
Each print is printed and framed for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days, then shipped in its own box (separate from any shirts in the same order). Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.
Returns
If your print or frame arrives damaged or misprinted, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every print is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Plate 035
From the book
- Species
- Pleurotus ostreatus
- As named in the book
- Agaricus ostreatus.
- Artist
- James Sowerby
- Book
- Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, pl. 241, 1797–1815
“Ostreatus — ostrea, an oyster.”
Field notes
A mushroom that hunts.
Sowerby painted these shell-shaped caps on dead wood in England around 1800, with the gills running down to a short stem at one side. The name is just a description: ostreatus, from ostrea, an oyster.
Wood is a poor diet. It's rich in carbon and short of nitrogen, so the oyster mushroom gets nitrogen another way: it kills nematodes, the tiny roundworms that live in rotting wood and soil.
Researchers in Taiwan found how. Tiny lollipop-shaped structures on its threads release a volatile compound, 3-octanone, that paralyzes a nematode within minutes of contact. The fungus then grows into the body. Not what most people picture when they see one on a log.
LINNAEUS shares natural history, not foraging advice.