Otidea onotica    (Pers.) Fuckel 

common name(s) : Hare's Ear, Ear-Jack Fungus, Hare's Ear Fungus 

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

synonyms: Peziza onotica, Otidea abietina 

edibility : discard

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

The fruiting body is rabbit ear-shaped, erect and non symmetrical, in tufts, with a vertically inrolled margin, with a light yellow to orange internal surface, the external surface being ochre-yellow, with a very short stem, covered with white hairs, pied très court, not clearly marked from the fertile head.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, sandy soils poor in humus, with beech, oaks.

The fruiting period takes place from April to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)
  total height approximately 7 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

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



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