Ascotremella faginea    (Peck) Seaver 



New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Leotiomycetes/Leotiomycetidae/Helotiales/Helotiaceae  
 

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Ascotremella faginea toxicity of Ascotremella faginea genus Ascotremella  

The fruiting body is a mass of contortous, gelatinous folds and lobes, looking like brains, beige then dark red-brown, without stem.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on dead wood of broad-leaved trees, on beech.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 7 cm)
  total height approximately 1.5 cm (between 1 and 2 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Ascotremella faginea is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .



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