About Auricularia nigricans (Sw.) Birkebak, Looney & Sánchez-García
Auricularia nigricans produces thin, rubbery-gelatinous, ear-shaped fruit bodies that can grow up to 60 mm (2.4 inches) across and 4 mm (0.16 inches) thick. These fruit bodies grow either singly or in clusters. The upper surface of the fruit body is densely covered in fine short hairs, with a colour ranging from ash-grey to yellowish brown. The spore-bearing underside is smooth, with a colour ranging from pinkish to brown. Auricularia nigricans is a wood-rotting fungus that typically grows on dead attached or fallen wood from broadleaf trees. It is widely distributed across the Americas, occurring from Louisiana and the Caribbean south to Argentina, and has not been recorded growing anywhere else in the world as of now.
