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| Figure 1. Auricularia auricula
Name: Auricularia auricula
Common name: Wood Ear
Family: Auriculariales
Collection date: September 18, 2015
Habitat: "Solitary or in groups or clusters on logs, dead branches, stumps, etc.(attached centrally or laterally); very widely distributed on both hardwoods and conifers, and often common in cool weather."
Location: Hiram, OH
Description: "Fruiting body rubbery to pliant or flabby to somewhat gelatinous when fresh, hard when dry; 2-15cm broad; cup-shaped to ear-shaped or sometimes with several earlobe lobes originating from a central point of attachment. Outer surface sterile, often veined or ribbed, minutely silky silky or with fine downy hairs, pale brown, liver-brown, drying blackish. Inner(fertile) surface smooth to slightly wrinkled, somewhat gelatinous when wet, tan or yellow-brown, grayish-brown, brown, liver-brown, or tinged purple; blackish when dried. Flesh thin, rubbery. Stalk absent or rudimentary."
Key used: Arora, David.(1986). Mushrooms defined second edition. Ten Speed Press.
Keying steps:
1b) Not as above
2b) Not as above
3b) Not as above
4b) Not as above, fruiting body cupcake, earlobe, disclike
6b) Not as above, fruiting body is sometimes slit down one side but not consistently so, and not usually growing erect, sometimes growing on dung.
7b) Fertile surface same shade of brown, black, tan, dingy yellow, or violet, or sometimes with a pinkish or lilac tinge
8b) Flesh rather tough (not breaking easily) and fertile surface dark brown to black ... Sarcosorna & Allies pg. 826
1b) Not as above
2a) Fruiting body shallowly cup-shaped or ear-shaped or like a piece of seaweed, dark brown to reddish brown or purplish but not normally black unless it dries out, 2-10cm broad; flesh thin and rubbery or rubbery-gelatinous; Sterile surface (exterior) minutely hairy; spores borne on basidia...pg. 675 Auricularia auricula
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