Mushroom Collections

Auricularia nigricans
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Auriculariales
Family: Auriculariaceae
Common Name: Wood ear mushroom
Pileus - ear shaped to convex, 38 - 55 mm across, light brown to dark brown in color, tough cartilaginous, and gelatinous, tomentose upper surface
Stipe - sessile or substipitate
Spores - hyaline
Edibility - edible
Ecology - saprophyte on dead wood or twigs, occurs singly or in cluster
Occurrence - Alilem, Ilocos Sur; CLSU Main Campus
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