Auricularia mesenterica

Auricularia mesenterica (Dicks.) Pers.

common name(s) : Tripe Fungus

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Auriculariales/Auriculariaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Phragmobasidiomycetes/Auriculariales/Auriculariaceae
(unconfirmed synonyms: Exidia lobata)

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Auricularia mesenterica

The fruiting body is like a gelatinous mass, disk-shaped at first then flattening in thick imbricated lobes, with a banded and hairy upper surface, with a grey to purple-black internal surface, the external surface being grey-brown.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, in broad-leaved woods, on felled wood, on elm, maple tree.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.

Dimensions:	width of fruiting body approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 15 cm)
	total height approximately 0.4 cm (between 0.3 and 0.5 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Auricularia mesenterica is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .

here should be the distribution map of Auricularia mesenterica in the forest of Rambouillet

Above : distribution map of Auricularia mesenterica in the forest of Rambouillet

page updated on 14/01/18