urbpan: (dandelion)
urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2013-12-05 08:02 pm

Warm Wet Winter Wonders

"Warm" meaning "above 32F."

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A non-native invasive species, but a source of color at the black chain-link gate. The fruit of the tomato relative bittersweet nightshade Solanum dulcamara.

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Just a few feet away, the fruit of the fungus Exidia recisa, having weakened the wood of an overhead branch, has fallen with its food to the ground. There is no accepted common name for this mushroom, but I like "winter jelly" or maybe "willow jelly" since it's one of the only mushrooms common in winter, and it mostly feeds on willow branches.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2013-12-06 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Exidia recisa --SO DELICIOUS IN SOUP.

[identity profile] urb-banal.livejournal.com 2013-12-06 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
bittersweet as opposed to "deadly" nightshade? or just slow enough for the taste to get recorded?

[identity profile] swifticus.livejournal.com 2013-12-08 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
E. recisa is also known as willow brain. I first noticed this in the fells near Bellevue Pond.

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2013-12-10 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
So that's why that gross gelatinous stuff is. Thanks!