Tremella mesenterica Retz.:Fr.
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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
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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
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| | Above : distribution map of Tremella mesenterica in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18