J is for edible mushrooms

J is for Jelly leaf fungus. I work with mushrooms, I should talk about mushrooms.

From Wikipedia

Name:

Tremella Foliacea (AKA: Jelly Leaf Fungus)

Description:

A large, lettuce like fungus, with ruffled, irregular leaf like lobes¹. A cinnamon brown to purplish brown color.

Comments:

Truthfully, I picked this because I though it's picture looked like red leaf lettuce, which I have more experience with. This variety of mushroom is edible, and is a parasitic mush room that can be found on the mycelium or fruiting bodies of fungi found on the branches of broad leaf trees or conifers. It's said it doesn't taste like much, but research from 1973 suggest that it may have anti-tumor properties. It can be found in the northern hemisphere from July to November, after rainstorms.
http://healing-mushrooms.net/archives/tremella-foliacea.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremella_foliacea
 http://www.fnanaturesearch.org/index.php?option=com_naturesearch&task=view&id=1931 http://www.mushroomfarm.com/mushroom-species/jelly-fungi/tremella-foliacea.html
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