The overnight fungus is not edible.

The fungus, also known as cloud ear and mulberry ear, is an important edible fungus in China, with wide natural distribution and artificial cultivation. Mullein has a soft texture, tender taste, delicious flavor and special flavor. And rich in protein, fat, sugar and a variety of vitamins and minerals. There is a high nutritional value, modern nutritionists praise it as the meat of the vegetarian.

The nutritional value of fungus can be compared with animal food, its extremely rich in iron, vitamin K content. The fungus mycelium is composed of colorless, transparent, tubular mycelium with septa and branches. The mycelium absorbs nutrients in the substrate and forms fan-like mycelium under the bark.

The shape of the fungus

The fungus substrate is thin, flexible, gelatinous, translucent, and concave in the center, often auricular or annular, tapering to a leaf-like shape. The base is narrowed into an auricle, with a smooth, or veined, wrinkled surface. Diameter is usually 4 cm to 10 cm, with larger ones up to 12 cm or more. After drying, it shrinks strongly, and the upper surface of the seed layer becomes dark brown to nearly black, and the lower surface is dark gray-brown, covered with very short tomentum.

Parasitic on shady, decaying trunks, growing on the decaying wood of oak, poplar, ficus, acacia and other 120 kinds of broad-leaved trees. Vigorous ginkgo trees can also grow on the artificial cultivation of basswood and bag material-based. Artificial cultivation of linden and bags as a substrate, more growth in humid areas.