Auricularia cornea

Hairy wood ear

The hairy wood ear is a jelly fungus of dead broadleaf wood across southern Asia, Africa, Australasia, the Pacific and South America, with a hairy upper surface. It is cultivated commercially in China, including a white form. New Zealand exported wild-collected fruit bodies to China from the 1870s to the 1950s.

Auricularia cornea — Photo: Michael (inski), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At home, aim for

Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Very humid airBand in Plantistry

Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest period

Where it grows wild

It grows on dead fallen or standing wood of broadleaf trees.

Mostly lowland: recorded from sea level to 1,455 m, median 20 m.

Southern AsiaAfricaAustraliaNew ZealandPacific IslandsSouth AmericaCaribbean

🔒 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. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.