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The genus Tremella unites mushrooms, the fruiting bodies of which are gelatinous and lack legs. The deciduous tremor resembles a wavy fringe bordering a dry tree trunk or stump.
Description of deciduous shiver
The shape can be different: sometimes it stretches in length up to 20 cm or more, 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 one base.
Rusty brown blades darken over time, even blacken. White spores stand out on the surface. In wet weather, the formations are gelatinous, since the hyphae that make up the fruiting body are capable of accumulating moisture, which makes it possible to withstand prolonged drought. The scallops wrinkle only after a while and acquire a purple hue.
The pulp at an early age is dense, elastic, like rubber. This property is later 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 it grows
Distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Prefers trunks of deciduous trees, stumps, substrate, as it parasitizes on other fungi from the genus Stereum. In Russia, 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.
Is the mushroom edible or not
Certain species of this family in China are used in cooking, for example, fucus-shaped, others in folk medicine. But the deciduous tremor is an inedible fruiting body. The pulp does not smell, has no taste. It is not worth collecting, although it does not possess toxicity, there is no information about its toxicity.
Doubles and their differences
All formations of the Theotremella genus are similar to each other in a wave-like form of formation, a fringed structure. Some species have a high density, others are looser. The twins are the following types:
Leaf trembling parasitizes coniferous trees.
Auricularia auricular 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 elderberry or alder. In China, soups and salads are made from it, and used in folk medicine.
Auricularia sinuous resembles the intestines and has a translucent, grayish or light brown tint.
Conclusion
Deciduous shiver is one of those mushrooms, the properties of which, like the entire family, have not been fully studied. Does not possess edibility.
