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Here's a kind of catch-up on some of the dried mushrooms / fungi mentioned above but not illustrated.
First here is dried cloud ear fungus (云耳 yún ěr) Auricularia polytricha
and then Jew's ear or jelly ear Auricularia auricula-judae. Most unusually the Chinese name is the rather prosaic 黑木耳 hēi mù ěr, which simply means black wood ear.
Finally "flower mushroom" 花菇 huā gū which, as has been noted, is actually a more highly prized type of dried shiitake mushroom (冬菇 dōng gū).
Here's a kind of catch-up on some of the dried mushrooms / fungi mentioned above but not illustrated.
First here is dried cloud ear fungus (云耳 yún ěr) Auricularia polytricha
and then Jew's ear or jelly ear Auricularia auricula-judae. Most unusually the Chinese name is the rather prosaic 黑木耳 hēi mù ěr, which simply means black wood ear.
Finally "flower mushroom" 花菇 huā gū which, as has been noted, is actually a more highly prized type of dried shiitake mushroom (冬菇 dōng gū).
Here's a kind of catch-up on some of the dried mushrooms / fungi mentioned above but not illustrated.
First here is dried cloud ear fungus (云耳 yún ěr) Auricularia polytricha
and then Jew's ear or jelly ear Auricularia auricula-judae. Most unusually the Chinese name is the rather prosaic 黑木耳 hēi mù ěr, which simply means black wood ear.
Finally "flower mushroom" 花菇 huā gū which, as has been noted, is actually a more highly prized type of dried shiitake mushroom (冬菇 dōng gū).
