Tremella mesenterica (common names include yellow brain, golden jelly fungus, yellow trembler, and witches' butter[2]) is a common jelly fungus in the family Tremellaceae of the Agaricomycotina. The gelatinous, orange-yellow fruit body of the fungus, which can grow up to 7.5 cm (3 in) diameter, has a convoluted or lobed surface that is greasy or slimy when damp.
It is most frequently found on both dead but attached and recently fallen branches, especially of angiosperms, as a parasite of wood decay fungi in the genus Peniophora.[3] It also grows in crevices in bark, appearing during rainy weather. Within a few days after rain it dries into a thin film or shriveled mass capable of reviving after subsequent rain. This fungus occurs widely in deciduous and mixed forests and is widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions, including those of Africa, Australia, Eurasia, and the Americas. Although considered bland and flavorless, the fungus is edible. It produces carbohydrates that have attracted research interest because of their various biological activities.
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Tremellamesenterica (common names include yellow brain, golden jelly fungus, yellow trembler, and witches' butter) is a common jelly fungus in the family...
plants, with Tremellamesenterica as the type species. Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has shown that Tremella (as previously...
shrubs and fungi. One of the widespread fungi is Witch's Butter (Tremellamesenterica). The western slopes and plains fill a significant portion of the...
Tremella species I: Tremella aurantia and T. mesenterica". Mycologist. 9 (3): 110–114. doi:10.1016/S0269-915X(09)80270-X. Overall A (2017). "Tremella...
superficially similar European species Tremella lutescens (now regarded as a synonym of Tremellamesenterica). It was raised to species level by American...
North America, fruit bodies of the common and widespread species Tremellamesenterica are similar in appearance but typically bright golden yellow and...
species is considered to be close to Tremellamesenterica, the type species of the genus, and hence belongs in Tremella sensu stricto. Fruit bodies are gelatinous...
number of its members are parasitised by other fungi. For example, Tremellamesenterica is a parasite to several species of Peniophora. The genus was first...
species is considered to be close to Tremellamesenterica, the type species of the genus, and hence belongs in Tremella sensu stricto. Fruit bodies are gelatinous...
species is considered to be close to Tremellamesenterica, the type species of the genus, and hence belongs in Tremella sensu stricto. Fruit bodies are gelatinous...
comparatively large (18–23 by 6.5–8 μm), 7-septate basidiospores. Tremellamesenterica and Naematelia aurantia are macroscopically identical to D. chrysospermus...
species is considered to be close to Tremellamesenterica, the type species of the genus, and hence belongs in Tremella sensu stricto. Fruit bodies are gelatinous...
Trichosporon and some fungi that are cultivated for food in the genera Tremella and Naematelia. Tremellomycetidae Locq. is a class of lichen in the Basidiomycota...
191304. PMC 3057827. PMID 21169363. C. Michael Hogan.Witch's Butter: Tremellamesenterica, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed; N. Stromberg Archived 2012-09-21 at the...
restricted to the genus Tremella which is itself restricted to those species closely related to the type Tremellamesenterica. Fries EM. (1821). Systema...
Retrieved 27 April 2018. C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Witch's Butter: Tremellamesenterica, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg Archived 21 September 2012...
fungi. witches' butter Basidioma of Exidia glandulosa (or, in America, Tremella lutescens). Supposedly effective in witchcraft when thrown into a fire...
with such species as the fern Pellaea andromedifolia and the fungus Tremellamesenterica. "Polypodium calirhiza". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 23 June 2017...
required for a group of species not closely related to Tremellamesenterica (the type species of Tremella), and in 2015 Naematelia was selected as the earliest...
Eastern Europe, see Taxonomy of wheat Tremella lutescens, a formerly recognized species of fungus, see Tremellamesenterica anglicized "lutescan" used once...
to other gelatinous fungi, including E. glandulosa and the yellow Tremellamesenterica. It is said to be based on a folk belief that witches milk cows at...
required for a group of species not closely related to Tremellamesenterica (the type species of Tremella) and Phaeotremella was selected as the earliest such...
Peniophora incarnata is sometimes parasitised by the yellow brain fungus (Tremellamesenterica). Boddy, Lynne; Frankland, Juliet; van West, Pieter (2007). Ecology...
Saccardo later suggested that H. aurantiacus might be the anamorph of Tremellamesenterica, a view accepted by influential Dutch mycologist M.A. Donk. Molecular...
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