Discina perlata
Discina perlata, commonly known as pig's ears is a brown to tannish, wrinkled, cup- or ear-shaped fungus, sometimes with short, stout stalk. The spores of D. perlata are quite similar to those of mushrooms in the genus Gyromitra, so that some mycologists classify it there.
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| Fruit bodies of "Discina perlata" found in Eastern Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Siskiyou Co., California | |
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| Species: | D. perlata |
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| Smooth hymenium | |
| Cap is umbilicate | |
| Hymenium is decurrent | |
| Stipe is bare | |
| Spore print is brown | |
| Ecology is saprotrophic | |
| Edibility is not recommended or edible | |
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