Among the inhabitants of villages and cities, surrounded by forests, There is no shortage of people, who love quiet hunting.

Many of them over time became real professionals in this matter, predicting the whereabouts of their prey, No matter how hidden it is. However, few people heard about the mushroom of the hare ears: people tend to remember the appearance of that, What they are looking for, and ignore the uninteresting and unnecessary.

Maybe, Someone noticed this unusual creature, but he just glanced at a strange shape and indifferently walked past.
The name of a very small elastic education, sitting on the ground in the form of wrapped autumn leaves, is a direct translation from Latin. The ears of the hare, completely unlike magnificent locators, which nature endowed the hare, You can see one by one or in small groups on the moist land of the dark, raw forest.

Description

Rabbit ear fungus

Fruit body

The fruit body of this mushroom reaches 1-5 cm in height, rarely 10 cm, and 1-3 cm in a circle. As follows from the name, The fruit body in shape resembles the ears of the hare with bent edges. The fruit body is sitting, one -sided and juicy. He has a narrow base, And the lower part resembles an elongated stem with short hairs.

Rabbit ear: mushroom, with whom no one really knows

Inside the fruit body is ocher-orange, rust-brown or pale brown with red or rusty spots. The inner surface is smooth. The outer side of the mushroom has a lighter color, Hoast, Yellow-brown or ocher brown. The outer surface is rough, Without shine, With small hairs.

The pulp of the hare ear is thin and pale. Her color is the same, Like surfaces.

The mushroom makes a very weak smell, and sometimes it does not have it at all. These mushrooms have a fresh taste.

Leg

On this mushroom you can find a false knife. It is weakly expressed, lighter than the fruit body, Fragments of the substrate grow into it.

Spore -bearing layer

Himenopher is located on the inner surface of the "ear" (The outer part is sterile).

Spore-bearing layer ocher or dark orange with a pinkish tint.

Ecology and habitat

Widely widespread in Europe and North America, It is not very common. Grows single or groups on earth, in moss or in rotting wood.

The mushroom is a hare ear - inedible

The mushroom of the hare ear is found in coniferous forests of the Far East and Siberia, in the Caucasus and in the middle strip of Russia. Mixed forests are also suitable for the family.

He does not form large groups, Therefore, the focused collection is quite complicated. However, the demand for it from the mushroom collectors is absent. Rabbit ear conditionally, He has no taste and smell, And there is very little pulp, not even one tooth.

Besides, edible parts are rather solid and leathery. But if you are interested, You can collect it from July to mid -September.

These mushrooms are parasites. They settle on earth, in fallen leaves and often in heather or moss. Belief ears grow in coniferous forests and forests, mixed with spruce and pine.

Mushroom and hare ear (Otidea hare)

On substrates, these mushrooms grow accumulations, Sometimes in large groups. The hare ears are fruit infrequently and not every year. They can be found from August to October.

Mushroom and hare ear (Otidea hare)

Seven species of the genus Otidea are found on the territory of the former Soviet Union.

Doubles

The hare of the ear is similar to his close relatives - Otidey Oslina Or a donkey ear. However, the donkey ears are larger and have a brighter color. Mushrooms are yellowish-orange or ocher-orange inside and hoarse.

There is also a similarity with an amazing otide, but she is much darker in color. This mushroom has a dark brown color inside and light brown from the outside.

 The mushroom is a hare ear (Otidea hare)
Another similar close relative is Otida is elegant, which has a more open small lemon yellow fruit body.

Spiral or shell Otidea differs from the hare ear, that has a twisted fruit body, which is inside the red or chestnut color, And outside gray-brown with powder coating. Mushrooms have a characteristic smell.

 White mushroom (Otidea hare)

Video

Assessment of edibility

This is a little -known mushroom. It is considered conditional and present. The mushroom of the hare ear has a low rating of food quality, level 4. These mushrooms can be fried after boiling during 10 minutes. Like other otidei, hare ears are not very tasty.

How they are

Those rare mushroom pickers, who know about Otidia, Guaranteed, that they ate raw hare ears. They say, that the mushrooms are tasteless, But quite satisfying.

other side, Some people think, What, Like any conditionally present subspecies, the ears should first boil. Another cause of processing is the mushroom mitigation, which in raw form has a rubber -like consistency. Besides, In the process of preparation, they can be aromatized by spices.

However, it is unlikely that any mushroom hunter will decide to go to the forest, to collect hare ears.

Ulcerative: it cannot be salin for the winter, in dry form, it becomes flake -shaped and crumbly, and there is it fresh - little pleasure.

Vyacheslav Stepanov: Mushrooms of the Kaluga region - Hare, hare ear (Otidea hare)

The mushroom is a hare ear (photo)