Otidea leporina    (Batsch) Fuckel 



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

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Otidea leporina toxicity of Otidea leporina genus Otidea  

The fruiting body is ear-shaped, erect, and split on one side, with a red-brown internal surface, the external surface being of same colour or lighter.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, in higher altitudes, with spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions:
  total height approximately 3 cm (between 2 and 4 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

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



page updated on 14/01/18