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1544 Bk. Chyldren in T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) sig. e.vi^v Take the musherim that groweth vpon an elder tree, called in englysshe iewes eares.

1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches iii. sig. E4^v All the Sallets are turn'd to Iewes-eares.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 101 Jews eares..an excrescence about the roots of Elder, and concerneth not the Nation of the Jews, but Judas Iscariot, upon a conceit, he hanged on this tree. View more context for this quotation

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana ii. vii. 913/1 Let the Throat be anointed with Oil of Jews-Ears; which is made by boiling the Jews-Ears..in Oil-Olive till they are crisp, and pressing out the Oil, and repeating the boiling in like manner with fresh Jews-Ears, to the third time.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Arboreous, an epithet which Botanists apply to those Fungus's and Mosses which grow on trees, in Distinction from those that grow on the Ground, as Agaric, Jews-Ear, &c.

1827 S. Waring Wild Garland 12 Peziza coccinea. Jew's-ears... It..is found..on decayed sticks, in woods and damp hedges, putting forth its crimson cups to receive the pelting of many a pitiless storm.

1882 Garden 2 Sept. 207/2 There are several tree-growing edibles besides the two just mentioned. Of such is the Jew's ear.

1906 W. Foggitt in E. Bogg Richmondshire & Vale of Mowbray I. 156 Upon the ‘Batts’, a sandy tract near the Mill,..Peziza venosa—locally known as ‘Jew's Ear’ (but not the Jew's Ear of Mycologists).

1950 L. E. Hawker Physiol. Fungi iii. 49 Truffles have only about 75 per cent. water, while gelatinous fruit-bodies, such as the Jew's ear fungus (Hirneola auricula-judae), may have over 90 per cent.

2011 Sunday Times (Irish ed.) (Nexis) 30 Oct. (Home section) 19 I'm not one to stamp about twisting off Jew's ears, chasing after puffballs or leading a pig for a poke in the woods for a truffle.