8 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Yellow Brain Fungus Fruiting Body A wrinkled jelly like mass, usually bright yellow to orange, less often white, broadly attached to the substrate Flesh Yellow or white, gelatinous, when fresh, hard and brittle when dry Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season All year Distribution Very common Habitat Parasitic on fungi in the Peniophora genus growing on dead deciduous wood Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (10-16) x (6-10) µm2 Edibility Inedible 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A rare white form. 19 October 2007 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |