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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Blue cheeses, Truffles, Wensleydale cheese, Roquefort, Dorset Blue Vinney, Shiitake, Auricularia auricula-judae, Fungiculture, Agaricus bisporus, Grifola frondosa, Stilton cheese, Pleurotus ostreatus, Tremella fuciformis, Sparassis, Pleurotus citrinopileatus, Hericium erinaceus, Shimeji, Maytag Blue cheese, Pleurotus tuber-regium, Gorgonzola, Cabrales cheese, Stropharia rugosoannulata, Fourme de Montbrison, Cloud ear fungus, Lymeswold cheese, Picon Bejes-Tresviso, Volvariella volvacea, Hypsizygus tessellatus, Stichelton, Bleu d'Auvergne, Fourme d'Ambert, Dovedale cheese, Gamalost, Danish Blue, Saint Agur Blue, Cashel Blue, Shropshire Blue, Cambozola, Bleu de Bresse, Bleu de Gex, Valdeon cheese, Buxton Blue, Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage, Norbury Blue, Dragon's Breath Blue, Dolcelatte, Kluyveromyces lactis, Adelost, Blue Castello, Lanark Blue, Bleu des Causses, Newport 1665, Bleu Benedictin, Wrekin White, Aura, Saga cheese, Grinzola, Crozier Blue, Bleuchatel, Rokpol. Excerpt: Auricularia auricula-judae, known as the Jew's Ear, Jelly Ear or by a number of other common names, is a species of edible Auriculariales mushroom found worldwide. Distinguished by its noticeably ear-like shape and brown colouration, it grows upon wood, especially elder. Its specific epithet is derived from the belief that Judas Iscariot hanged himself from an elder tree; the common name "Judas's Ear" eventually became "Jew's Ear," while today "Jelly Ear" or other names are sometimes used. The mushroom can be found throughout the year in temperate regions worldwide, where it grows upon both dead and living wood. Although it is not regarded as a choice edible mushroom in the west, it has long been popular in China, to the extent that Australia exported large volumes of the mushroom to China in the early twentieth century. While not widely consumed in...
