Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Tremella encephala

By marianomariano | Nature - mushrooms | 26 Jul 2019


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Tremella encephala - Mushroom diameter 5 to 30 mm, it can also be larger. Milky white, white pink, brown-pink or yellowish. In the shape of a spherical, hemispherical or irregularly spherical shape. On the surface, cerebrally wavy or wrinkled with tiny patches, sitting.

Flesh whitish, hard gelatinous, almost transparent. In its interior there is a white, hard, opaque core, which is a lumpy thickening of the flesh of the bleeding peel, Stereum sanguinolentum, on which the cerebral quake is parasitic.

Occurrence: Throughout the whole year, on a dead, barkless wood of coniferous trees in coniferous and mixed forests, on pine and larch; in disperse, often in places.

Value: Unaffected fungus.

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