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FungusLCLeast Concern

Yellow Brain

Tremella mesenterica

About

A vivid orange-yellow, gelatinous bracket fungus that appears in winter on dead gorse and hardwood twigs. Despite appearances, it is a parasite on the mycelium of crust fungi in the wood, not on the wood itself. Shrivels in dry weather and reconstitutes in rain.

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Quick Facts

Category
Fungus
Latin name
Tremella mesenterica
IUCN Status
LC — Least Concern
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Conservation Status: LC

Least Concern — assessed by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.