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The genus Tremella includes mushrooms, the fruiting bodies of which are gelatinous and lack legs. The deciduous trembling resembles a wavy fringe bordering the trunk of a dry tree or stump.
Description of leaf shaker
The shape can be different: sometimes it stretches up to 20 cm or more in length, often grows in a bunch, becoming like a pillow or a ball up to 7 cm high. It all depends on the location of the mycelium and the conditions of the growing environment. These leafy brown formations have a single base.
The rusty-brown lobes darken over time, even turning black. White spores stand out on the surface. In wet weather, the formations are gelatinous, since the hyphae that make up the fruiting body are able to accumulate moisture, which makes it possible to withstand prolonged drought. Scallops wrinkle only after a while and acquire a purple hue.
The pulp at an early age is dense, elastic, similar to rubber. Later this property is lost. And in drought, parts of the fruiting body become brittle, fragile.
Gelatinous bodies retain moisture for a long time even in dry weather
Where and how to grow
Distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It prefers trunks of deciduous trees, stumps, substrate, as it parasitizes on other fungi of the Stereum genus. In Our Country, small groups of these exotic saprotrophs are found in the European part of the country, in the Far East from September to November. If the winter is warm and snowy, they persist until early spring. Sometimes mushroom pickers see tremors in June as well.
Is the mushroom edible or not?
Some species of this family in China are used in cooking, for example, fucus, others in folk medicine. But leafy trembling is an inedible fruiting body. The pulp does not smell, has no taste. It is not worth collecting it, although it does not have toxicity, there is no information about toxicity.
Twins and their differences
All formations of the genus Feotremella are similar to each other with a wavy form of education, a fringed structure. Some species have a high density, others are more loose. Doubles are the following types:
Leaf trembling parasitizes on coniferous trees.
Auricularia ear-shaped forms rosettes in the form of an auricle from 4 to 10 cm. Saprotroph grows on deciduous trees in the warm part of the temperate zone. Prefers elder or alder. In China, soups and salads are prepared from it, and it is used in folk medicine.
Auricularia sinuous resembles the intestines and has a translucent, grayish or light brown hue.
Conclusion
Leafy trembling is one of those mushrooms, the properties of which, like the whole family, have not been fully studied. Has no edibility.
