It’s like a fungus evolved to answer the age old question “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
Auricularia auricula-judae is a fungus that is shaped like a human ear. It grows mainly on dead elder trees and on fallen branchespic.twitter.com/T0z6QOdL99
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Ferengus...
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If another tree falls in the woods can they hear it?
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Well that completely changes the film. Kyle MacLachlan takes a fungus to the police and they laugh at him. Undeterred he tracks down Frank who is holding Isabella Rossellini's prized mushroom collection hostage.
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I knew the forest had eyes, but ears?
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The Chinese for two variants of this fungus translate as wood ear and cloud ear Both are delicious, but I prefer wood ear. Chinese know how to cook fungus.
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instantly
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The Tale of Hoichi the Earless https://www.kcpinternational.com/2015/05/the-story-of-hoichi-the-earless/ … 
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It's called Kikurage in Japanese and written "木耳" = wood's ear
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or maybe the trees are listening, too...
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*me gently whispering into it* "It be ya own friends..."
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So if a tree falls in the forest....
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