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Traditionally used in Chinese cooking, the health benefits of black fungus or ear mushroom are often overlooked by modern Chinese themselves. They are also called cloud ear, wood ear mushrooms or tree ear mushrooms   and it derives its various names from where it grows and its shape. It grows on a variety of dead woods and looks like the ear in its original dry form. When soaked, it expands to many times its original size, forming a rubbery mass of twirls that look like the shape of a billowing cloud.

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