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Spotting

Description:

Jelly like mushroom fungi I found in the forest behind my house

Habitat:

Growing on a broken rotting tree branch

Notes:

Very cool looking

2 Species ID Suggestions

Jew's ear
Cloud ear fungus (Auricularia polytricha, syn. Hirneola polytricha) Cloud ear fungus
Jew's ear
Auricularia auricula-judae Auricularia auricula-judae


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4 Comments

NicholasDrakeUrdy
NicholasDrakeUrdy 11 years ago

Thank you @CorduneanuViad :)

NicholasDrakeUrdy
NicholasDrakeUrdy 11 years ago

Thank you so much Noel! i really appreciate it! That's awesome just found it on the web :-)

'NoelOrtega
'NoelOrtega 11 years ago

Cloud ear fungus (Auricularia polytricha, syn. Hirneola polytricha) is an edible jelly fungus. It is gray-brown in color and often used in Asian cooking.
It is known as Mandarin Chinese: pinyin: yún'ěr, lit. "cloud ear"), Chinese: pinyin: máomù'ěr, lit. "hairy wood ear"), or (pinyin: mù'ěr, lit. "wood ear" or "tree ear"), and in Japanese it is called arage kikurage, lit. "tree jellyfish"). It is also known as black fungus, black Chinese fungus (or mushroom), wood ear fungus, wood fungus, ear fungus, or tree ear fungus, an allusion to its rubbery ear-shaped growth. In Europe, it is frequently confused as "Jew's ear", and "Jelly ear", albeit they are very closely related. In Hawaii, they are known as pepeiao which means ear.[1] In Southeast Asia, it is known as bok nee in local English (from the Hokkien bo̍k-ní) and is used in the salad kerabu bok nee. In the Philippines, the locals call it tenga ng daga, meaning "rat's ear" due to its appearance.

'NoelOrtega
'NoelOrtega 11 years ago

mouse ears... :D

NicholasDrakeUrdy
Spotted by
NicholasDrakeUrdy

Reston, Virginia, USA

Spotted on Oct 31, 2012
Submitted on Nov 1, 2012

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