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Common Name: Witch's Butter
Sporocarp
Fruit bodies 1-7 cm broad, flabelliform to cerebriform, gelatinous, viscid to slippery when moist, hard and stiff when dry; pallid yellowish to yellowish-orange to orange in color, flesh gelatinous.
Spores
Spores 7-18 X 6-14 µm, subglobose to elliptical, smooth, hyaline to pale yellowish. Basidia longitudinally septate.
Habitat
Gregarious on wood, where it is parasitic on Stereum species.
Edibility
Edible, but without flavor.
Comments
Tremella mesenterica or Witches Butter is the name assigned to most collections of yellowish-orange jelly fungi in the S.F. Bay Area. Dacrymyces palmatus, however is very similar and the two species cannot be reliably told apart without the use of a microscope. Tremella mesenterica has longitudinally septate basidium while the basidium in Dacrymyces palmatus resembles a tuning fork. Vaata siit ja siit!
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