Kevin Hoover Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 Do aspen oysters grow on hybrid poplar? Â I hear they are fruiting around here now and I have access to a local 89 acre property heavy with 6-10 inch hybrid poplar. Worth checking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHNY Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 You should try looking for them. "Poplars" hybridize easily on their own and also deliberately by growers. The genetic purity of many wild and planted trees is hard to prove. As long s your hybrids are derived from North American species, you have a chance at finding some oysters. My property has some pure trembling aspen and also balsam poplar. But some trees are hard to put a definite label on, I think because of natural hybridization. I have found "summer" oyster mushrooms on all of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted May 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2022 Ok. I was a little late checking for them, so what I found was too old. I did find them on hybrid poplar.  But every one I saw was on trees 1-3” in diameter.  None of the bigger poplars or downed poplar had any growing on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHNY Posted May 31, 2022 Report Share Posted May 31, 2022 That is odd. The only summer oysters that I find are on dead Aspens always 12+ inches diameter, usually standing but occasionally fallen and always with bark still attached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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