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Black Jelly Fungus


Black Jelly Fungus
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Copyright: Tairi Tappo (uduputuk) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 28 W: 24 N: 42] (226)
Genre: Fungi
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-10
Categories: Fungi
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/40 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-11-19 7:25
Viewed: 639
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Tremellales
Family: Exidiaceae
Genus: Exidia
Species: Exidia glandulosa (English name: black witch's butter, black jelly roll; Estonian name: harilik süldik)

Fruit body 2–6cm across, gelatinous, pendulous, disc-shaped at first and bearing tiny scattered warts, often becoming fused with adjacent fruit bodies, upper surface felty, black. Spores white, sausage-shaped, 10–16 x 4–5µ. Basidia resembling hot cross buns when viewed from above. Habitat on dead wood of deciduous trees; sometimes on dead parts of living trees. Season: all year. Frequent. Distribution: America and Europe (common in Estonia from late summer to early spring). In spite of its name it is inedible.
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  • whjb Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 51 W: 26 N: 172] (683)
  • [2006-11-19 8:30]

Hi Tairi,

Interesting subject and very well handled. Sharp, good DOF. Composition was well handled.

TFS
Willem

Hi Tairi.
I never came across a nice specimen of Exidia galndulosa like this one, it is on my wish list.
The details on the blacks are very nice, although the white part is a bit overexposed (by the way it looks that you have another fungus there). I think you could have adjusted a bit with Shadows and Highlight tool.
Interesting post and nice note, thanks.

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