Tremella mesenterica: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Tremellomycetes
- Order
- Tremellales
- Family
- Tremellaceae
- Genus
- Tremella
- Species
- Tremella mesenterica
- Scientific Name
- Tremella mesenterica
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tremella mesenterica
Tremella mesenterica (common names include yellow brain, golden jelly fungus, yellow trembler, and witches' butter) 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. 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 Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. The fungus is potentially edible and produces carbohydrates that have attracted research interest because of their various biological activity.
...Tremella mesenterica in languages:
- Bokmål
- gul gelésopp
- Catalan
- Tremel·la
- Chinese
- 金黃銀耳
- Czech
- rosolovka mozkovitá
- Danish
- Gul bævresvamp
- Dutch
- Gele trilzwam
- English
- witch's butter
- English
- Witches' Butter
- English
- Yellow Brain-fungus
- English
- Yellow Brain
- Estonian
- kollane kõhrik
- Finnish
- Keltahytykkä
- French
- Trémelle mésentérique
- German
- Goldgelber Zitterling
- Hebrew
- קרישית זהובה
- Hebrew
- קרישית זהובה.
- Hebrew
- קְרִישִׁית צְהֻבָּה
- Hungarian
- Aranyos rezgőgomba
- Japanese
- コガネニカワタケ
- Latvian
- Dzeltenā receklene
- Lithuanian
- Raukšlinis žiūrytis
- Polish
- Trzęsak pomarańczowożółty
- Russian
- Дрожалка оранжевая
- Slovak
- rôsolovka zlatožltá
- Swedish
- Gullkrös
- Ukrainian
- Тремела звивиста
- Ukrainian
- Дрижалка помаранчева
- Ukrainian
- Дрожалка помаранчева
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Tremella abrothalli
- Tremella acarosporae
- Tremella alba
- Tremella alectoriae
- Tremella anaptychiae
- Tremella aptrootii
- Tremella aspicilliae
- Tremella aurantiolutea
- Tremella boninensis
- Tremella boraborensis
- Tremella brasiliensis
- Tremella brodoae
- Tremella caloplacae
- Tremella celata
- Tremella cephalodiicola
- Tremella cervina
- Tremella cetraculeata
- Tremella cetrariae
- Tremella christiansenii
- Tremella clade 1
- Tremella clade 2
- Tremella clade 3
- Tremella coccocarpiae
- Tremella confluens
- Tremella conidioparmotrema
- Tremella conidiopunctelia
- Tremella conidiopunctelia conidiopunctelia
- Tremella conidiopunctelia parmelinellae
- Tremella coniocarpi
- Tremella crystallina
- Tremella dactylobasidia
- Tremella dendrographae
- Tremella diederichiana
- Tremella diploschistina
- Tremella dirinariae
- Tremella emmanueliae
- Tremella endosporogena
- Tremella ertzii
- Tremella fibulifera
- Tremella flakusii
- Tremella flava
- Tremella flavoparmeliae
- Tremella fuciformis
- Tremella gigantea
- Tremella giraffa
- Tremella globispora
- Tremella graphidastrae
- Tremella graphidicola
- Tremella graphidis
- Tremella haematommatis
- Tremella harrisii
- Tremella herpothalli
- Tremella huuskonenii
- Tremella hypocenomycis
- Tremella imshaugiae
- Tremella indecorata
- Tremella karstenii
- Tremella lecidellae
- Tremella leprae
- Tremella leprariae
- Tremella leptogii
- Tremella lethariae
- Tremella leucodermiae
- Tremella macrobasidiata
- Tremella macroceratis
- Tremella mayrhoferi
- Tremella mesenterella
- Tremella mesenterica
- Tremella microcarpa
- Tremella monospora
- Tremella montis-wilhelmii
- Tremella nashii
- Tremella nephromatis
- Tremella nephromopsidis
- Tremella nieblae
- Tremella normandinae
- Tremella obscura
- Tremella occultixanthoriae
- Tremella octosporae
- Tremella pacificae
- Tremella papuana
- Tremella parmeliarum
- Tremella parmeliellae
- Tremella parmogardneri
- Tremella parmohypotropi
- Tremella parmoperforati
- Tremella penetrans
- Tremella pertuceracea
- Tremella pertusae
- Tremella pertusariae
- Tremella pertusariicola
- Tremella pertutexanae
- Tremella pertuthalamiae
- Tremella phaeographidis
- Tremella phaeographinae
- Tremella phaeophysciae
- Tremella pinaultii
- Tremella pisutiellae
- Tremella placynthiellae
- Tremella protoparmeliae
- Tremella pseudocyphellariae
- Tremella psoroglaenae
- Tremella psoromicola
- Tremella pulvinalis
- Tremella puncteliae
- Tremella puncteliotegens
- Tremella purpurascentis
- Tremella pyrenaica
- Tremella pyrenulae
- Tremella ramalinae
- Tremella ramboldiae
- Tremella rhabdodisci
- Tremella rhizocarpicola
- Tremella rinodinae
- Tremella robusta
- Tremella rubromaculata
- Tremella samoensis
- Tremella santessonii
- Tremella sarcographae
- Tremella steidleri
- Tremella stevensiana
- Tremella stictae
- Tremella strigulae
- Tremella sulcariae
- Tremella synarthoniae
- Tremella tawa
- Tremella teloschistis
- Tremella tornabeae
- Tremella tubulosae
- Tremella tuckerae
- Tremella umbilicariae
- Tremella variae
- Tremella versicolor
- Tremella vescicaria
- Tremella vesiculosa
- Tremella wedinii
- Tremella wirthii
- Tremella wrightii
- Tremella xanthomendozae
- Tremella zamorae
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