Auricularia tortuous (Auricularia mesenterica)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Auriculariomycetidae
- Order: Auriculariales (Auriculariales)
- Family: Auriculariaceae (Auriculariaceae)
- Genus: Auricularia (Auricularia)
- Type: Auricularia mesenterica (Auricularia tortuous)
- Auricularia membranous
Description:
The hat is semicircular, disc-shaped, straightens to prostrate, forming thin plates from 2 to 15 cm wide. On the upper side of the cap, concentric grooves covered with grayish hairs alternate with darker parts that end at a lobed, lighter edge. Color – from brown to light gray. Sometimes the visible greenish coating on the cap is due to algae. The lower, spore-bearing side is wrinkled, venous, veined, purple-brown.
Spores are colorless, smooth, in the form of narrow ellipses.
Pulp: when wet, soft, elastic, elastic, and when dry, hard, brittle.
Spread:
Auricularia sinuous lives in deciduous, mainly lowland forests on fallen tree trunks: elms, poplars, ash trees. A common mushroom for the Lower Don region.