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Exidia glandulosa.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Black Jelly Roll, Exidie glanduleuse, Hexenbutter, Warziger Drusling, Witches’ Butter
Exidia glandulosa Mushroom
Ref No: 7724
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Black or blackish
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Other
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on wood

Exidia glandulosa Fr. Warziger Drusling, Hexenbutter, Exidie glanduleuse, Black Jelly Roll, Witches’ Butter. Fruit body 2–6cm across, gelatinous, pendulous, disc-shaped at first and bearing tiny scattered warts, often becoming fused with adjacent fruit bodies, upper surface felty, black. Spores white, sausage-shaped, 10–16 x 4–5µ. Basidia resembling hot cross buns when viewed from above. Habitat on dead wood of deciduous trees; sometimes on dead parts of living trees. Season all year. Frequent. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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