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Auricularia auricula-judae (Bull.) Wettst., 1897 (Jelly Ear, The Jew’s Ear Or Judas’s Ear Fungus)

Date: 27 November 1999
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 27/11/1999[C]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on Elder
Associated organism: on branches of Sambucus nigra
Identification Notes: Spore print: "B" squashing darker, "E". Unchanged in Melzer's Iodine.
Spores 18/6µm, curved-cylindric, with large oblique apiculus, hyaline, mostly granular but some with oil drops

Images etc

naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - in situ - underside 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - on Elder trunk 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - on Elder trunk 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - on Elder trunk 500 by 375 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - underside 500 by 366 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbodies - young, before the characteristic shape has developed 42 Kb 362 by 288 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - dry state - from above 29 Kb 469 by 287 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - dry state - from below 500 by 339 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - underside 500 by 338 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody on Elder 500 by 375 pixels
microscope photograph Hymenial elements 401 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Hymenial elements 401 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Hymenial elements 28 Kb 341 by 427 pixels
microscope photograph Hymenium squash 500 by 315 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 22 Kb 422 by 238 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 26 Kb 435 by 365 pixels

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