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Glutinous earth tongue
Glutinous earth tongue Glutinoglossum glutinosum is a saprophytic fungus that also goes by the ominous name, viscid black earth tongue. Its smooth, club-shaped fruiting bodies grow on the soil, in moss and in grassy areas. Although it is not worth eating, Charles McIlvaine opined in his 1902 work One Thousand American Fungi that, if stewed, G. glutinosum is “delicious.”
Photo: Anvay Nakade