Oyster Mushroom Print
Oyster Mushroom Print
Size
12 × 18 in overall, unframed. The plate sits on an ivory sheet with a border of about an inch, so it fits a standard ready-made frame of the same size, with or without a mat.
Printed on 189 g/m² (10.3 mil) enhanced matte paper.
Want it ready to hang? The same plate comes framed in Black or Red Oak.
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; a frame with glass or acrylic keeps it clean.
Shipping & production
Each print is printed for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days, and ships on its own (separate from any shirts or framed prints in the same order). Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.
Returns
If your print 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.