This velvety rootbeer-colored, moist-looking, rubbery-textured, somewhat cup-shaped edible fungus grows on trees and downed logs
Most Auricularia species are edible and many are grown commercially. In fact, most look-alikes are also edible. Added to soups, salads (braised first), and fried dishes, it can also be dried and ground into a flour. Be careful — these can sometimes swell too quickly and become explosive or even airborne… and are also an anticoagulant (blood thinner).
This black-white-and-grey bird points its slender bill downwards - or tilts it comically upwards - as it spirals face-first down tree trunks and round ...
The local Philippines call this woody vine "tayabak". Related to the green beans we grow in our gardens, this species' unique turquoise claw-shaped ...
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