Exidia saccharina    (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Pine Jelly 

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

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Exidia saccharina toxicity of Exidia saccharina genus Exidia  

The fruiting body is a mass of brain-like folded lobes, yellow-brown to red-brown, without stem.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on dead coniferous wood, on pine, fir, spruce, larch.

The fruiting period takes place from November to April.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 8 cm)
  total height approximately 1 cm (between 0 and 2 cm)


Exidia saccharina is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Exidia saccharina in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Exidia saccharina in the forest of Rambouillet



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