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Tremella foliacea
Tremella foliacea
Brown Witch`s Butter
Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

ID: 0000 0000 0311 2921 (2011-03-27)

Copyright © 2011 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

 
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  • date of photo  Jan 17, 2011
  • latitude 46.34312   longitude 13.58380     View on Google Maps.
  • location   Bovec basin, at the foot of Mt. Svinjak, 1.965 m (6.447 feet), above Kal-Koritnica village, East Julian Alps (Posoèje, Slovenia)
  • notes   Slo.: listasta drhtavka - Habitat: In a group of Betula pendula trees as a pioneer species on an abandoned pasture; shallow, moderately acid soil on cretaceous clastic rock (flysh), south oriented, warm place, exposed to direct rain, partly in shade, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, altitude 585 m (1.900 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: Fallen and partly rotten trunk of Betula pendula, still in bark. - Comments: Growing solitary, `pileus` width about 30 cm (one foot); flesh very hard and brittle when completely dry. SP very faint, possibly white-yellowish (?). Spore dimensions: 9.6 (SD = 0.6) x 7.2 (SD = 0.4) micr., Q = 1.33 (SD = 0.07), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. - Ref.: (1) D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), p 673. (2) http://www.mushroomexpert.com/tremella_foliacea.html . (3) http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Tremella_foliacea.html . (4) http://www.grzyby.pl/gatunki/Tremella_foliacea.htm .
  • camera   Canon G11, 6.1-30mm/f2.8-4.5
  • contributor's ID #  Bot_480/2011_DSC6354
  • photo category: Fungi - fungi

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  • common names   Brown Witch`s Butter (photographer)
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