Ear of Judas

The Auriculaire S are Champignon S having so to speak the shape of an ear. At the beginning they are gelatinous and cartilagineux and then become harder and horn while drying. They are Saprophyte S, and parasites of weakness.

Description

The Ear of Judas, is a mushroom of brownish color rosy to purple, wrinkled with veined, having the form of a small cut being able sometimes almost to take the appearance of a human ear while advancing with the age (2 to 10 cm in diameter), whose external face is same color (slightly paler) and subtly velvety (Furfuracé E). Its flesh is translucent, gelatinous, elastic and firm, becoming more coriace into growing old. It almost does not have savor. It pushes all the year on the trunks of leafy trees alive or died with a predilection for the elder tree. This mushroom is commonly called " Noir" mushroom; in Asian gastronomy.

Use

It is an edible mushroom which is used believed and out of salad (to give color) but more especially in the sauces to which it gives a particular consistency.

Toxicity

This mushroom does not have a intrinsic toxicity, but it can bioaccumuler of the metals accumulated in the wood, of which the mercury present in the environment or the deadwood (as the mushrooms of the type Agaricus and Vascellum do it = lycoperdon). Its consumption is to be disadvised in the urban, industrial environments or in the zones of after-effects of war, in particular over the period 1914-1918, 1939-1945 when the starters of balls and shell contained mercury fulminate, dispersed in the environment. This mushroom was capable of bioaccumuler also the Chrome, the Manganèse, the Sélénium (but less than the kinds Boletus, Suillus and Xerocomus) and the Plomb.

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