Mushrooms · La Saladita, Guerrero

Pink Oyster Mushroom

Pleurotus djamor

Spanish: Orejón rosa

Pink Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus djamor)
Photographed by raghupathy on iNaturalist · taken in 13th Main Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN, not near La Saladita

Pleurotus djamor, commonly known as the pink oyster mushroom, is a species of fungus in the family Pleurotaceae. It was originally named Agaricus djamor by the German-born botanist Georg Eberhard Rumphius and sanctioned under that name by Elias Magnus Fries in 1821. It was known by many different names before being transferred to the genus Pleurotus by Karel Bernard Boedijn in 1959.

TaxonomyAgaricomycetes › Agaricales › Pleurotaceae
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records2,303 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “Pink Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus djamor) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/pleurotus-djamor/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.