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The hare's ear is a distinctive fungus of deciduous woodlands. The ear-shaped cups appear in groups on the soil and leaf litter of mixed and deciduous woodlands, often near to paths. Fungi belong to their own kingdom and get their nutrients and energy from organic matter, rather than photosynthesis like plants. It is often just the fruiting bodies, or 'mushrooms', that are visible to us, arising from an unseen network of tiny filaments called 'hyphae'. These fruiting bodies produce spores for reproduction, although fungi can also reproduce asexually by fragmentation.