Agaricus ostreatus (Jacq.) Fries Family Agaricaceae.
Habitat Artocarpus interfolia, indigenous to the western Ghats.
English Oyster Mushroom (grows on Artocarpus integrfolia).
Action Prevents excessive salivation. Also given internally in dysentery, diarrhoea, stomatitis; as a paste to gums in apthae.
