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Wild Oyster Mushroom

Antique mushroom print · Planche XVIII · Paris 1891

Wild Oyster Mushroom — Antique Mushroom Print, Planche XVIII, Paris 1891

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Print at home · US Letter · 300 DPI

Two species on this sheet

accepted today as printed, 1891
N° 39 Pleurotus ostreatusWild Oyster Mushroom Pleurotus ostreatusPleurote en forme d'huîtremarked edible, 1891
N° 40 Pleurotus eryngiigenus changed Pleurotus EryngiiPleurote de l'Eryngiummarked edible, 1891

Wild Oyster Mushroom and one other species, on Planche XVIII of Léon Dufour's 1891 Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux. Restored from the plate for home printing.

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sRGB, with a quarter-inch trim margin on all four sides. Print at 100% — never “fit to page”.

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All 24 plates of the first kit are available together as a complete kit, with marbled endpapers, cut-apart species labels, and a two-page provenance document.

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file JPEG · 2550 × 3300
print size 8.5 × 11 in · 300 DPI
impression 5.7 × 9.9 in at 300 DPI

About the plate

From Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux, Léon Dufour, Paris, 1891. Captions transcribed by hand from the plate. Édition Madame Genet.

A note on the 1891 marks

A historical document. Nomenclature and edibility assessments have changed considerably since 1891 — several species marked comestible here are now known to be toxic. Not a foraging guide.