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This fungus has jelly-like flesh when wet, and its spores fall from little spore-holders, placing it in the Basidiomycetes. It is frequently used in egg rolls and other Chinese dishes, in stuffings and fillings as the dried pieces are rather tasteless. It grows on tree bark and decaying logs. Its ap...

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This fungus has jelly-like flesh when wet, and its spores fall from little spore-holders, placing it in the Basidiomycetes. It is frequently used in egg rolls and other Chinese dishes, in stuffings and fillings as the dried pieces are rather tasteless. It grows on tree bark and decaying logs. Its appearance is, typically, ear-shaped (2-15cm) tan to brown with irregular brown flesh which is thin, gelatinous-rubbery when wet. Pictured Old Warden, Bedfordshire mid February 2006.

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18th Feb 2006 by Diane Earl

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 Biology, Science

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fungus tree wild nature

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