Saturday 17 January 2015

Witches Butter

Witches Butter, or Yellow Jelly Fungus (Tremella mesenterica). Witches Butter can found throughout the year as long as there's plenty of rain, it likes it wet. Found growing on decaying wood, it's a parasite growing on the mycelium of another fungus which has already established itself and is rotting the wood. I've read that it's edible and is commonly used in foreign climes for soups and such, though other sources site it as inedible. Edible or otherwise, I rarely get 'that' hungry.  As with all fungi care is to be taken.             

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