Rogers Mushrooms - Otidea onotica Mushroom


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Otidea onotica. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Eselsohr, Hare’s Ear, Nyulfülgomba, Oreille d’âne, Oreille de lièvre

Ref No: 9296
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location: North America, Europe

edibility: Inedible

fungus colour: Yellow, Orange

normal size: 5-15cm

cap type: Other

stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent

flesh: Flesh granular or brittle

spore colour: White, cream or yellowish

habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Otidea onotica (Pers.) Fuckel syn. Peziza onotica Pers. ex Fr. Hare’s Ear, Eselsohr, Oreille de lièvre, Oreille d’âne, Nyulfülgomba. Cup 2–6cm wide, 3–10cm high, lopsided, irregularly ear-shaped, attached to the substrate by a short, indistinct whitish stalk, inner surface ochraceous flushed pinkish, outer similarly coloured and slightly scurfy. Flesh thin, white. Asci 250 x 10µ, not blued by iodine. Paraphyses slender, curved at tip. Spores broadly elliptical, containing two oil drops, 12–13 x 5–6µ. Habitat in soil in deciduous or mixed woodland. Season autumn. Occasional. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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