Showing Food Cloud ear fungus

General Information

Name

Cloud ear fungus

Scientific Name

Auricularia polytricha

Description

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. Fruit body resupinate or pileate, loosely attached, laterally and sometimes by a very short stalk, elastic, gelatinous; sterile surface dark yellowish brown to dark brown with greyish brown bands, hairy, silky. Hymenium smooth, or wrinkled, pale brown to dark brown to blakish brown with a whitish boom. Hairs thick-walled, up to 0.6mm long. Basidia cylindrical, hyaline, 3-septate, 46-60 × 4-5.5?m with 1-3 lateral sterigmata; sterigmata 9-15 × 1.5-12?m. spores, hyaline, reniform to allantoid, 13-16 × 4-5.5?m, guttulate.

Primary ID

FOOD00554

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