Help Verifying Mushroom ID

[Nathan]

Hello! Looking for some help verifying these mushrooms are golden oysters. They came from SE MN. I picked them from a dead aspen tree. As you can hopefully tell from the video the gills run down the stem and the cap is far off center. The stem is short and attached directly to the tree for every single mushroom. They are clustered in shelf like groupings. What isn’t portrayed in the video is they definitely have a strong anise smell to them. I’m confident they are oysters, I’d just like to know what kind! Any tips or information would be greatly appreciated!

[JOHNY]

Everything you  describe plus the pictures look like a Pleurotus---Oyster mushroom of some sort. 

I don't know if they are Golden Oysters. That is species from East Asia and has got loose in North America and seems to be spreading its range. We certainly have none here in North West Ontario.  All pictures that I have seen of Goldens show brilliant yellow thin capped mushrooms. Yours are dull yellow/light brown.

The spore print should be mostly white for Oysters

I think you have Pleurotus pulmonarius which is what I call "summer oysters". Pleurotus ostreatus also grows on dead Aspen but more commonly in late summer to fall.

I would definitely eat these if I found them....but as always, the final decision is yours

[troutddicted]

I Second the Pleurotus proposal.

[ZUnit]

I third this. I have been finding Golden Oysters in PA where I live and they don't look like Golden Oysters in my opinion but definitely look like some type of Pleurotus. The Golden Oysters I have seen grow differently than all the other Oyster species. Kinda like little clumps of smaller ones or rosettes more then the typical larger shelf varieties. I also find huge groups of them in varying stages of growth. They seem to spread like wildfire and grow all over the place. After watching them disperse their spores I can see why.