Yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) growing on a dead gorse bush. The fruiting body is soft, gelatinous and translucent with brain like lobes.

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Yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) growing on a dead gorse bush. The fruiting body is soft, gelatinous and translucent with brain like lobes. The surface layer produces basidia which produce four spores that are released into the air (heterobasidiomycete). The fungus grows on dead twigs and branches. Found from January to December and is edible.

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Keywords: biological, biology, body, brain, bush, edible, fruiting, fungal, fungi, fungus, gelatinous, gorse, heterobasidomycete, mesenterica, mycological, mycology, translucent, tree, tremella, trunk, yellow