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Jelly Fungi The jelly fungi are so named because many of them have the appearance of irregular lumps of jelly and because the texture of fresh specimens is definitely gelatinous. All of them, however, are edible. People familiar with wooded areas will almost certainly have seen various jelly fungi, especially the two widely distributed and easily recognized kinds here described. GENUS Hirneola Edible: HIRNEOLA AURICULA-JUDAE (Jew's Ear Fungus) The Jew's ear (Figure 61) is a cosmopolitan plant found almost throughout the world. The cap is from i to 2 inches across, typically ear-shaped, dark brown in color, and attached by a lateral or off-center stem-like base. It usually grows in colonies on coniferous and hardwood logs for several years after the trees have fallen, and it can often be gathered in quantity. In texture it is somewhat tough-gelatinous and in flavor rather bland. It can be dried easily and kept indefinitely, needing only to be soaked in water for a short time before being used. One kind of Jew's ear is cultivated after a fashion, on wood cut for the purpose, in at least one region of China and is exported to other sections of that country. There it is highly esteemed as food and is considered to have various medicinal virtues as well. Another species or variety occurs in great abundance in New Zealand and other islands of the South Pacific, and the gathering and exportation of it have been of some commercial importance. From 1872 to 1883, according to Cooke's British Edible Fungi (see page 119), 1,858 tons of Jew's ear fungi, valued at about eighty thousand pounds sterling, were exported from 100
JELLY FUNGI Figure 61. Hirneola auricula-judae (Jew's Ear Fungus). Edible. Figure 62. Tremella hitescens (Yellow Jelly Fungus). Edible. New Zealand to the Orient. This should be a clinching argument for its edibility. GENUS Tremella Edible: TREMELLA LUTESCENS (Yellow jeiiy Fungus) This fungus (Figure 62) is a common inhabitant of old logs, where it grows as a convoluted, soft, gelatinous mass. It was once known as "witch's butter," from the fanciful belief that it was associated in some way with witches. It is edible but has never attained much favor in Europe or America, perhaps because the plant is small and tends to become slimy with age or perhaps because methods of preparing it to bring out its best qualities have not vet been devised. 10 I
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