Exidia glandulosa    (Bull.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Witches' Butter 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Auriculariales/Auriculariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Phragmobasidiomycetes/Tremellales/Tremellaceae  

synonyms: Exidia truncata, Exidia plana ss.auct. 

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with  Exidia glandulosa toxicity of Exidia glandulosa genus Exidia  

The fruiting body is disk- or top-shaped at first, then brain-like, arranged in lobes and folds, black to dark brown, without stem.

The fertile surface is smooth.

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

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 6 cm (between 1 and 20 cm)
  total height approximately 2 cm (between 1 and 3 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Exidia glandulosa is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Exidia glandulosa in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Exidia glandulosa in the forest of Rambouillet



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