Yellow brain
Tremella mesenterica
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Tremella mesenterica
- Class
- Tremellomycetes
- Order
- Tremellales
- Family
- Tremellaceae
- Under the cap
- Smooth
- Cap
- No cap
- Stem
- No stem
- Lives by
- Parasite
- Season
- Spring, Autumn, Winter
- Habitat
- Dead wood
- Spore print
- White, Yellow
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- It is a parasite, but not of wood: it feeds on the threads of another fungus living in the dead branch.
- In dry weather it shrivels into hard yellow specks and swells back to a soft jelly after rain.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q19733 · All fungi · All entries