Auricularia australiana

Auricularia australiana is a wood ear of eastern Australian rainforest, described in 2021 for the Australian lineage formerly called A. delicata clade I. It has fawn to reddish-brown ears with a hairy upper surface and a strongly pored-netted underside, and it decays dead hardwood. Nothing has been published on growing it; conditions here are estimated from its forest habitat and related tropical wood ears.

At home, aim for

Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Very humid airBand in Plantistry

Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest period

Where it grows wild

On dead wood in rainforest; the types came from Dromedary Mountain (Gulaga), New South Wales, and Mt Lewis, Queensland. An iNaturalist-sourced record notes it abundant on rotting logs in dense subtropical rainforest by a flood-prone creek.

The types are from coastal-range and upland rainforest; few records carry an elevation.

Eastern AustraliaNew Guinea

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.