Does anyone know what makes the wood-ear / black fungus / mu err mushroom SO black?
Is it just the beta-carotene?

#mushrooms #mushroom
#MuErr #WoodEar #AuriculariaCornea

wood ear mushrooms growing on a decaying log

Wood ear mushrooms. They're kinda cute.
#woodear #mushroomsky #mushrooms #fungi #nature #photographer #photography

Purple wood ear mushrooms growing from a log.

Purple wood ear mushrooms growing from a log.

I've been editing photos all day. Which led me to forget I promised some more fungi photos.
Here are some wood ears. These are edible mushrooms.
#woodear #mushrooms #fungi #nature #photography

“When I say big I mean big. As a matter of fact they were huge, perhaps even enormous!”

- Me seeing the biggest bunch of Auricularia auricula-judae ever

#fungifriends #woodear #mushrooms

Some fungi settling in on my pavers #fungi #subtropics #northernrivers #photo #woodear

Possibly my best #woodear photography yet :)

#Woodear
#Mushrooms #Fungi #Nature
#Edible #Foodsky
#Arkansas #USA

A fungus known as Wood ear. Blackish/ maroon/ brown in color. Growing from the side of a log.

Another photo of a fungus called, wood ear.
Found at Metea County Park, Fort Wayne Indiana
Photographed by me.

#woodear #fungus #woods #naturepreserve #witchsky #witchinthewoods #witchwithacamera

Wood Ear (Auricularia judae)
(I believe this is correct)
Lots of amazing finds today!

Metea County Park, Fort Wayne Indiana

#woodEar #fungus #mushrooms #photography #WitchWithACamera #witchsky #naturepreserve

Wood Ear mushrooms (Auricularia angiospermarum) found on a walk in the woods. #mushrooms #woodear #

Wood ear mushrooms on warm brown wood with a blurred winter sparse forest in the background and blue skies above it.

Friends, countrymen: Lend me your ears!👂

We FINALLY got outside this weekend, 52 days since the last time — waaay too long.

#WoodEar #FungiFriends #fungi #DisabledForager 🍄📸

1st post. Will this attract the type of friends I seek on this platform...? #Fungi #mushrooms #woodear #mushlove

Go to the woods and tell it your secrets... The trees will listen.👂
#WoodEar #mushroom #fungifriends #auricularia

Wood ear fungus Auricularia auricula-judae

Found some, Auricularia auricula-judae, also known as wood ear, this morning.

It's edible but please don't eat anything that you are not 1000% sure of.
#woodear #fungus

Some brown mushrooms

polypores in a tree hole

Polypores lining a log

Woodear in disco

some #fungus for your #thursday. #fungifriends #nature #mushrooms #polypore #jellyear #woodear #fungi #fungusamongus #photography #macro #macrophotography

A close-up of a reddish=brown small Jelly Ear mushroom (Auricularia auricula-judae) growing on decayed wood.

Baby Goths - Jelly?

#Photography #Nature #Outdoor #NaturePhotography #Forest #Mycology #Mushroom #Fungi #FungiFriends #Texas #EastTexas #AuriculariaAuriculaJudae #Woodear #JellyEar

Auricularia auricula-judae - Wood Ear mushrooms on a log. Taken at Martin Dies State Park

I love taking pictures of flowers but since there are few around, here are some of their goth cousins.

#Photography #Mycology #Mushroom #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography #Outdoors #Nature #Texas #Forest #EastTexas #MartinDiesStatePark #AuriculariaAuriculaJudae #Woodear

It's Mushroom Monday! I bought some woodear and enoki mushrooms and decided to go to town. I also stir fried some low carb konjac noodles with some of my homemade fermented peppers. Eat your shrooms! 😋🍄 #enoki #woodear #lowcarb #glutenfree #omad

A collection of mushrooms that look like wood ear mushroom, for purposes of differentiation. I've noticed that sometimes people will call an ear-like fungus "woodear", so I wanted to showcase the morphological differences between some of the jelly-like, ear-like, and cup-like fungi. Credit for the images used in this collage are from the following users from iNaturalist, going from the top down: Exidia crenata & recisa: jessicaprecht, pucak, billmac, jbrumfield, loantaka. Phaeotremella foliacea complex: slepice_s_fotakem, alexbarnard, billmac, dgirgente, tombigelow. Auricularia auricula-judae complex: mjbmike, matejfranceskin, nedotykomka_seraja, daniel_koerbaecher, claudiapogoreutz. Gyromitra ancilis: taylor435, vadimrybakov69, samforrey, bakkasv, lesliejoan. Disciotis venosa: marmow, vanai235, stargazerhs, filipfuljer, antonioezquerro. Peziza varia complex: gardenedsandra, goflowers, weskabke, c0rvusc0rax, judy406.

Happy #MushroomMonday! 🍄📸

I found this collage over on Facebook, made by Derek LaRiviere. Photo credits in the photo ALT description.

#WoodEar #JellyRoll #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #science #nature