What Varieties of Wood Ear Are There? Common Types and Their Characteristics
Wood ear is a type of fungus that people often eat in daily life. It can be served cold, stir-fried, added to hot pot, or cooked in soup. In recent years, the market prospects for wood ear have also been steadily rising, and many people have the idea of cultivating wood ear. Today we will mainly look at what varieties of wood ear there are.
1. Black wood ear
Black wood ear is relatively common in daily life. Black wood ear is also known as black vegetable, mulberry ear, native fungus, tree chicken, wood moth, and wood fuzz. It is named for its ear-like shape and its dark brown color. Black wood ear is a plant of the wood ear family. It is neutral in nature and sweet in taste, and enters the stomach and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of nourishing, moistening dryness, nourishing blood and benefiting the stomach, invigorating blood and stopping bleeding, moistening the lungs, and moistening the intestines.
2. Fang ear
Fang ear, also known as Fangxian black wood ear, is produced in Fangxian, Hubei Province. Fangxian is located in the northwest of Hubei Province and the south of Shiyan City, between the Daba Mountains and Wudang Mountains. It is a famous black wood ear production base county in China and a world-renowned "hometown of wood ear." Fang ear is bright in color, thick in flesh, large in fruit body, high in quality, and rich in nutrition. Because it is "shaped like a swallow and looks as if flying," it is also called "swallow ear" and has the reputation of "king of mountain delicacies."
3. Hairy wood ear
Hairy wood ear, also called yellow-back wood ear, has nutritional components similar to black wood ear. It has the effects of clearing the lungs and benefiting qi, relieving pain, and invigorating blood. Its crude fiber content is relatively high. These fibers have a good promoting effect on the digestion, absorption, and metabolism of many nutrients in the human body, and the down on the back of the ear contains abundant polysaccharide anticancer substances.
4. Wrinkled wood ear
The fruiting body of wrinkled wood ear is generally relatively small, gelatinous, ear-shaped or disc-shaped, sessile, and grows on decaying wood, with a diameter of 1-7 cm x 1-4 cm. Wrinkled wood ear mostly grows on the dead and decaying wood of broadleaf trees such as alder and tung tree, in groups. It is mainly produced in Hainan, Fujian, Guangxi, Taiwan, China, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xizang, and other places. It is a tropical species and is mostly seen south of the Nanling Mountains in China.
5. White wood ear
Silver ear is also called white wood ear, snow ear, silver ear seed, and so on. It belongs to the phylum Basidiomycota, family Tremellaceae, genus Tremella, and is the fruiting body of the fungus Tremella fuciformis. It has the reputation of "crown among fungi." The fruiting body of silver ear is pure white to milky white, 5-10 cm in diameter, soft and white, translucent, and elastic.
6. Autumn wood ear
Autumn wood ear originated in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, an imperial physician discovered an organism that looked very much like wood ear, but this wood ear was black. This plant was somewhat dark green, and it was found through research that this wood ear-like plant had higher nutritional value than wood ear. It was discovered in autumn at the time, so it was called autumn wood ear. Autumn wood ear is generally relatively small, but the ear pieces are relatively spread out. Autumn wood ear is one of the wood ear varieties specially produced in the Greater and Lesser Khingan forest areas and the Jilin Changbai Mountain forest area, mainly distributed in Yichun and Shangzhi in Heilongjiang, Baishan City in Jilin, Tai'an City in Shandong, and other places.
Most friends may think that there is only one kind of wood ear, namely black wood ear. In fact, wood ear is also divided by origin, variety, characteristics, and so on. Have you eaten any of the above types of wood ear?
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