Auricularia auricula-judae - Mushroom with a diameter of 30 to 150 mm. In gray-brown, yellowish-brown or red-brown, it can also be pale (I met once completely white). Cup-shaped or cup-shaped, often reminiscent of the earlobe, the elder irregularly undulating. Outer side (vapid) delicately velvety, covered with short, thick hairs. Inner (hymenium) shiny, smooth, with veined, wrinkled strips, sometimes dusted whitish by spores. Moist - jelly, soft, dry - wrinkled, cartilaginous. Sitting or narrowly attached to the ground.

Stem very short, if present.

Flesh pale brown, dark brown, red-brown, jelly-like, elastic, after hard drying, strongly shrunken. Without a specific taste and smell.

Occurrence: Throughout the year most often on dead or damaged branches and trunks of elderberry, less often on maples, robinia and other deciduous trees. The fruiting bodies are often gregarious.

Value: edible, has health properties.