Resupinatus applicatus, commonly known as the smoked oysterling or the black jelly oyster, is a species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae, and the type species of the genus Resupinatus. First described in 1786 as Agaricus applicatus by August Johann Georg Karl Batsch, it was transferred to Resupinatus by Samuel Frederick Gray in 1821.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Smoked Oysterling being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Resupinatus trichotis
- Resupinatus cinerascens
- Resupinatus alboniger
- Resupinatus subapplicatus
- Resupinatus striatulus
- Resupinatus merulioides
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Agaricales
- Family
- Resupinataceae
- Genus
- Resupinatus
- Species
- Resupinatus applicatus
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