name: Cloud Ear Fungus

flavor_db_name_variants: cloud ear fungus

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Cloud ear fungus

id: 554

name_scientific: Auricularia polytricha

description: Cloud ear fungus (Auricularia polytricha, syn. Hirneola polytricha) is an edible jelly fungus. It is gray-brown in color and often used in Asian cooking. Fruit body resupinate or pileate, loosely attached, laterally and sometimes by a very short stalk, elastic, gelatinous; sterile surface dark yellowish brown to dark brown with greyish brown bands, hairy, silky. Hymenium smooth, or wrinkled, pale brown to dark brown to blakish brown with a whitish boom. Hairs thick-walled, up to 0.6mm long. Basidia cylindrical, hyaline, 3-septate, 46-60 × 4-5.5?m with 1-3 lateral sterigmata; sterigmata 9-15 × 1.5-12?m. spores, hyaline, reniform to allantoid, 13-16 × 4-5.5?m, guttulate.

itis_id: null

wikipedia_id: Cloud_ear_fungus

picture_file_name: 568.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 124801

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:30:07.000Z

legacy_id: 595

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Mushrooms

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:49.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:27.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 29893

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00554