this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Auricularia auricula-judas is now called wood ear or black wood ear and is edible.

mushroom looking like an ear

mushroom looking like an ear

mushroom looking like an ear

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.

unrelated photo, but showing a hanging Wandering Dude plant

Tradescantia zebrina (not my pic)

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[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Creepy, but fascinating.

[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago
[–] platysalty@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Come on man, my timeline is starting to look like a serial killer's with all these body part mushroom posts