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Golden jelly fungus by any other name

Golden jelly fungus by any other name

Golden jelly fungus also goes by a series of other names: witch’s butter, yellow brain fungus, yellow trembler and the linnaean version, Tremella mesenterica.

This pair of fruiting bodies were growing on a twig almost overhanging the footpath across Compton Rough in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.