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Pig's Ear mushroom Something picked this took a bite and set it right back down. I guess it didn't taste too good. Discina perlata,Discina perlata(Fr.) ex Fr.,Geotagged,Gomphus clavatus,Gyromitra ancilis,Pig's Ears,Spring,United States Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Pig's Ear mushroom

Something picked this took a bite and set it right back down. I guess it didn't taste too good.

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Fruiting body sessile to short-stipitate, 1.5-9.0 cm broad, at first shallow-cupulate, in age centrally depressed, arched towards the margin, the latter conspicuously wavy; hymenial surface wrinkled to deeply furrowed, yellowish-brown to reddish-brown; exterior surface minutely hairy, whitish when fresh, drying pinkish-brown, wrinkled and furrowed like the hymenial surface; context firm, brittle, white, unchanging, up to 3.0 mm thick; odor not distinctive; taste mild.

Similar species: Pezizales
Species identified by morpheme
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By morpheme

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Uploaded Apr 19, 2015. Captured Apr 18, 2015 11:04 in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, National Forest Development Road 49, Darrington, WA 98241, USA.
  • X-E1
  • f/1.0
  • 1/250s
  • ISO200
  • 50mm