Tremella encephala    Pers.:Fr. 

common name(s) : Conifer Brain 

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

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Tremella encephala toxicity of Tremella encephala genus Tremella  

The fruiting body is hemispherical to cushion-shaped, with brain-like convolutions, milky-white to whitish-pink, without stem.

The fertile surface is smooth.

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

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 1.5 cm (between 0.5 and 3 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Tremella encephala is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .



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