Mushroom Collections

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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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