Identification of the Larger Fungi

by Roy Watling

Illustrations: LH 225; NB 149¹; WD 107¹.

Plate 60. Jelly fungi

[Larger illustration]

Exidia glandulosa (St Amans) Fries Witch’s butter

Fruit-body: width 15-50 mm.

Description:

Fruit-body: sessile or shortly stalked, blackish, variable in shape, rounded, flattened, disc-shaped or convolute, gelatinous with its under surface tomentose and free from the substrate.

Fruiting surface: uppermost, wavy and folded, and with numerous wart-like projections.

Spore-print: white.