Auricularia auricula-judas is now called wood ear or black wood ear and is edible.
Tangent info: This mushroom used to have the name Jew's Ear Fungus, as you can see in the latin name. I have a bunch of Tradescantia zebrina in my garden and it has recently been renamed "Wandering Dude". I'm sure you can figure out what it used to be called.
Tradescantia zebrina (not my pic)
Creepy, but fascinating.