Brown Witch's Butter

Tremella foliacea

• Quote from David Arora’s book, Mushrooms Demystified in regards to edibility:

  “I once encountered a person gathering this species and asked, “How do you prepare them?” She replied, “With garlic and soy sauce”. “How do they taste, I said. With slight hesitation she said, “Like garlic and soy sauce.”

• Found growing on decaying hardwood logs and stumps

Crown-tipped coral

Artomyces pyxidatus

• AKA “nature’s laxative”

• grows on decaying wood