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pig's ears

Gomphus clavatus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) jennifer_miner, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	5,890
Alaska	4,677
California	503
Canada	352
Washington	226
Oregon	219
Ontario	128
British Columbia	106
Austria	43
Quebec	42

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata
Human edible commercially tradedRecognized by a harvested source as edible and suitable for commercial food trade.Mushrooms traded as food, Volume I

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Fungi Including Lichens · Fungi
Phylum	Basidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
Class	Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
Order	Gomphales
Family	Gomphaceae
Genus	Gomphus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: FungiTastic metadata (BSD-3-Clause repository; dataset terms require verification)
Traits: Mushrooms traded as food, Volume I (Copyrighted publication; factual list metadata retained for review)
How much to rely on each source

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