Auricularia americana
A jelly ear fungus that decays dead conifer wood across North America, mainly in the Northeast, with further records from China and the Russian Far East. It is the only North American Auricularia on conifers, which separates it from the broadleaf A. angiospermarum. Dedicated cultivation methods are not published, so the growing notes adapt standard wood ear practice.
Where it grows wild
On dead attached or fallen wood of conifers in temperate and montane forest.
Recorded at 191–3430 m; the median of 2978 m comes from only 10 records, many in the Colorado Rockies.
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