Otidea alutacea    (Pers.) Massee 

common name(s) : Tan Ear 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Pezizomycetes/Pezizomycetidae/Pezizales/Pyronemataceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pezizomycetideae/Pezizales/Pezizineae/Otideaceae  

synonyms: Peziza alutacea 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Otidea alutacea
photo gallery of  Otidea alutacea potential confusions with  Otidea alutacea toxicity of Otidea alutacea genus Otidea  

The fruiting body is cup-shaped, tufted, split on one side, with a clay-buff internal surface, the external surface being tawny-buff brown.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, on poor sandy soils, with pine, oaks.

The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 5 cm)
  total height approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)


Otidea alutacea is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Otidea alutacea in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Otidea alutacea in the forest of Rambouillet



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