Tremella foliacea    Pers. 

common name(s) : Leafy Brain, Jelly Leaf 

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

edibility : discard

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

The fruiting body is a mass of contortous, gelatinous leaf-shaped folds and lobes, reddish brown to amber, black when drying, without stem.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on dead wood of broad-leaved trees, on beech, birch, cherry trees, maple trees.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 12 cm)
  total height approximately 3 cm (between 2 and 4 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Tremella foliacea is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Tremella foliacea in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Tremella foliacea in the forest of Rambouillet



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