Purple Ear
(Tripe Fungus)
Description
Fruit-body resupinate, disc-shaped at first, then more or less bracket-like, with upper surfaces protruding up to 3 cm, covering a few square centimetres to several square decimetres. Upper surface hairy-felted, undulated, with whitish grey and olive-brown zones. Lower surface reticular wrinkled-pleated, purple-brown, occasionally white pruinose with spores. Flesh gelatinous, rubbery.
Occurrence
Not uncommon on trunks and stumps of deciduous trees, favouring Elm, in deciduous woods and parks on rich sandy and clayey soil.
Saprophyte. (Parasitic).
Related and/or similar species
- Chondrostereum purpureum