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A related fungus, Auricularia heimuer, is widely used in East Asian cooking and has often been misidentified as Auricularia auricula-judae. Auricularia auricula-judae has a mild flavour, which may be considered bland. [24] It can be dried and rehydrated, [25] sometimes swelling to 3 – 4 times in size. [25]
Auricularia heimuer (黑木耳, black ear fungus), previously misdetermined as Auricularia auricula-judae; Auricularia cornea (毛木耳, cloud ear fungus), also called Auricularia polytricha; Tremella fuciformis (银耳, white/silver ear fungus) The black and cloud ear fungi are black in appearance and closely related. The white ear fungus is ...
Auricularia heimuer, also known as heimuer (Chinese: 黑木耳; pinyin: hēimù'ěr) or black wood ear, is a species of fungus in the order Auriculariales.It is commercially cultivated for food in China at a value exceeding $4 billion (USD) per year.
Several species within the order are edible and two, Auricularia heimuer and Auricularia cornea, are cultivated on a commercial scale, particularly in China and southeast Asia. They are widely exported, in a dried or powdered state, as "black fungus", "cloud ears", or "wood ears". [7]
The genus was first introduced in 1780 by French mycologist Pierre Bulliard for a range of different fungi producing fruit bodies with an ear-like shape. In 1822 Christian Hendrik Persoon restricted the genus to two gelatinous species, Auricularia mesenterica (which became the type species) and A. sambuci (a synonym of Auricularia auricula-judae). [2]
Auricularia auricula-judae, known as the Jew's ear, jelly ear or by a number of other common names, is a species of edible Auriculariales mushroom found worldwide. Distinguished by its noticeably ear-like shape and brown colouration, it grows upon wood, especially elder.
Auricularia auricula-judae – wood ear, Judas' ear, black fungus, jelly ear; Auricularia polytricha – cloud ear; Calocera cornea; Calocera viscosa – yellow tuning fork, yellow stagshorn fungus; Dacrymyces palmatus – orange jelly; Dacryopinax spathularia; Exidia glandulosa – black jelly roll, witches' butter; Exidia recisa - amber jelly ...
In some these are conspicuous and may be ear-shaped, button-shaped, lobed, bracket-like, or effused. Their hymenophores (spore-bearing surfaces) may be smooth, warted, veined, toothed (as in the genus Pseudohydnum ), cyphelloid (as in the genus Heteroscypha ), or poroid (as in the genera Elmerina and Aporpium ).