Auricularia auricularis (Ear-to-ear headphones)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Auriculariomycetidae
- Order: Auriculariales (Auriculariales)
- Family: Auriculariaceae (Auriculariaceae)
- Genus: Auricularia (Auricularia)
- Type: Auricularia auricula-judae (Auricularia ear-shaped (Judas ear))
Description:
Hat 3-6 (10) cm in diameter, cantilever, attached sideways, lobed, shell-shaped, convex from above, with a lowered edge, velvety, finely hairy, cellular-depressed on the underside (reminiscent of an ear shell), finely folded with veins, matte, dry gray-brown, reddish-brown, brown with a reddish tint in wet weather – olive-brown or yellow-brown with a red-brown tint, brownish-reddish in the light.
Spore powder whitish.
The pulp is thin, elastic gelatinous, dense, without any special smell.
Spread:
Auricularia ear-shaped grows from summer to late autumn, from July to November, on dead wood, at the base of trunks and on branches of deciduous trees and shrubs (oak, elder, maple, alder), in groups, rarely. More common in the southern regions (Caucasus).
Video about the mushroom Auricularia ear-shaped:
