Fungi fd. 1/25/03

[e.hutton]

Alter S. Reiss wrote:

> 
> "Daniel B. Wheeler" <dwheeler at ipns.com> wrote in message
> news:pgpmoose.200301271056.7007 at net.bio.net...
>> Fungi found Jan. 25, 2003 at Paul Bishop's (a week before the annual
>> FREE truffle hunt):
> 
> (. . .)
> 
>> Witch's Butter (sorry, forgot the scientific name)
> 
> Tremella Mesenterica, IIRC.  I rather like it in those "cup o' noodles"
> type ramen soups.
>
Sorry you recall incorrectly. Tremella Mesenterica is Yellow Brain Fungus.
Witches' Butter is Exidia glandulosa = E. plana = E.truncata, and is black.
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