BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Exidia nucleata (Schwein.) Burt, 1921 (Crystal Brain)

Notes (MWS)

A transparent, yellowish or colourless, jelly fungus containing white calcareous lumps. It dries to a shiny crust, hardly visible except for the white granules. Very common, on rotten branches of frondose trees, especially poplar (*Populus*).

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon	Summary	Date	Vice-county	Country
Exidia nucleata	Fruitbody	15 October 1997	Berks	England		6
Exidia nucleata	Fruitbody	24 January 1971	East Norfolk	England	1
Exidia nucleata	Fruitbody	28 September 1968	East Sussex	England	1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Reid, D.A., 1970 (Reports possible conidial state)	New or Interesting records of British Hymenomycetes. IV
	Swollen hyphae in Jelly Fungi

Exidia nucleata may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)

TREMELLOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of jelly fungi)

Exidia
(brain fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Exidia nucleata is associated with:

fruitbody	Acer pseudoplatanus - Sycamore, Great Maple (Aceraceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Ilex aquifolium - Holly (Aquifoliaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Hedera helix - Ivy (Araliaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Arctium - burdocks (Asteraceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead stem	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Corylus - hazels (Betulaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Laburnum anagyroides - Laburnum (Fabaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Platanus - planes (Platanaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Clematis vitalba - Traveller’s-joy (Ranunculaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead stem	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Salix - willows (Salicaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Tilia - limes (Tiliaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Ulmus - elms (Ulmaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees	fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005