#Tremella mesenterica

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[mushroomgay]

Epping Forest, UK, February 2024

Jelly ear (Auricularia auricula-judae) and Witch's butter (Tremella mesenterica)

All the jelly fungi were looking beeeeautifully fat and healthy after the rain on my walk yesterday.

[pytheon]

[drafthearse]

Yellow fungus ( Tremella mesenterica ) on dead branch.

[colorsoutofearth]

Yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) on Silver Birch

Photo by Guy Edwardes

[rattyexplores]

Some more Witch’s Butter, Tremella mesenterica.

04/05/22

[vandaliatraveler]

For the mycophiles: a selection of Appalachia’s early spring fungi. Forgive me if I get any of these wrong, because I’m still learning how to identify all the wonderful fungi that grow in the woods around here. Incidentally, my go-to mycological bible is Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians, by William Roody. Maybe someday I can absorb just a fraction of the knowledge contained in this wonderful guide and become something more than a stumbling amateur.

From top: turkey tail (Trametes versicolor); a delicate Mycena, either nitrous bonnet (M. leptocephala) or stump fairy bonnet (M. alcalina); gilled polypore (Trametes betulina); witches’ butter (Tremella mesenterica), a lovely and unusual jelly fungus; and pinwheel mushroom (Marasmius rotula).

[halomancer]

I appreciate witch’s butter for both LOOKING like an colorful inviting gummy candy, and also BEING a colorful inviting gummy candy

[lilies-and-laughing-gas]

Witch's Butter

- (Tremella mesenterica)

[queen-mabs-revenge]

🍄 tremella mesenterica 🍄

aka 🧙 witches' butter 🧈

aka 🟡 yellow brain 🧠

[notquitebilateral]

Hardwood witch’s butter

Tremella mesenterica

Eagle River Nature Park, Malakwa, BC

17 Sep 2022

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Mushrooms that can be found in January and February (Latvia and the area) pt.1 :

Thelephora terrestris, Inonotus obliquus, Phlebia tremellosa, Fomes fomentarius, Phellinus tremulae, Fomitopsis pinicola, Tremella mesenterica, Phellinus pini.

[pytheon]

[mycoblogg]

FOTD #052 : witches' butter! (tremella mesenterica)

witches' butter (AKA yellow brain, golden jelly fungus, or yellow trembler) is a jelly fungus in the family tremellaceae. it has been recorded on every continent - except antarctica. it grows in mesic to wet habitats on tree branches !!

the big question : can i bite it?? some sources say it is edible, but flavourless. :-)

t. mesenterica description :

"the fruit body has an irregular shape, & usually breaks through the bark of dead branches. it is up to 7.5 cm (3.0 in) broad & 2.5 to 5.0 cm (1.0 to 2.0 in) high, rounded to variously lobed or brain-like in appearance. the fruit body is gelatin-like but tough when wet, & hard when dry. the surface is usually smooth, the lobes translucent, deep yellow or bright yellow-orange, fading to pale yellow, rarely unpigmented & white or colorless. the fruit bodies dry to a dark reddish or orange. the spores, viewed in mass, are whitish or pale yellow."

[images : source & source] [fungus description : source]

[fungitopia]

Yellow Brain, Tremella mesenterica on some Gorse on Dartmoor.

[rattyexplores]

Tremella mesenterica, or Witch’s Butter!

A very peculiar jelly-like fungus.

04/05/22