Tremella mesenterica    Retz.:Fr. 

common name(s) : Yellow Brain, Yellow Brain Fungus 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Tremellomycetes/Incertae sedis/Tremellales/Tremellomycetidae/Tremellaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Phragmobasidiomycetes/Tremellales/Tremellaceae  

synonyms: Tremella lutescens 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Auricularia tremelloides)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Tremella mesenterica
photo gallery of  Tremella mesenterica potential confusions with  Tremella mesenterica toxicity of Tremella mesenterica genus Tremella  

The fruiting body is a mass of contortous, gelatinous folds and lobes, golden yellow to orange, without stem.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on dead wood of broad-leaved trees, on beech, oaks, ash, hazel.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 5 cm (between 1 and 10 cm)
  total height approximately 3.5 cm (between 1 and 6 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Tremella mesenterica is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Tremella mesenterica in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Tremella mesenterica in the forest of Rambouillet



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