Definition of Tremella foliacea

1. Noun. A jelly fungus with a fruiting body 5-15 cm broad and gelatinous in consistency; resembles a bunch of leaf lettuce; mostly water and brownish in color.

Generic synonyms: Jelly Fungus
Group relationships: Genus Tremella, Tremella

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tremella Foliacea

Treasury obligations
Treaty of Versailles
Treitz
Treitz's arch
Treitz's fascia
Treitz's fossa
Treitz's hernia
Treitz's ligament
Treitz's muscle
Trekker
Trekkers
Trekkie
Trekkies
Trelat's sign
Trelat's stools
Tremella foliacea
Tremella fuciformis
Tremella lutescens
Tremella reticulata
Tremellaceae
Tremellales
Trenchardian
Trendelenburg
Trendelenburg's operation
Trendelenburg's position
Trendelenburg's symptom
Trendelenburg's test
Trendelenburg position
Trendelenburg radiograph

Literary usage of Tremella foliacea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George. Massee (1895)
"... black, shining disc is formed. Substance soft and tough, cutting almost like india-rubber. According to Fuckel—Symb. Myc., p. 286—tremella foliacea ..."

2. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"tremella foliacea is of a smoky-brown color, cold, clammy and trembles in the hands. When stewed, it becomes a slimy mess relished only by the Chinese. ..."

3. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1879)
"Vittadini and Rogers speak well of it, and the peasants of Milan toast it over embers, and eat it with a little salt. TREMELLA. tremella foliacea, Curtis. ..."

4. Epping Forest by Edward North Buxton (1901)
"tremella foliacea. Soft and jelly-like masses, as large as a walnut, or small apple, of a brownish colour, on rotten trunks. Substance yielding to the touch ..."

5. Greenwich Park: Its History and Associations by Angus Duncan Webster (1902)
"... the jelly-like tremella foliacea, and the well known " Stinkhorn " (Phallus impudicus). These are only a few of the many Fungi that are to be found in ..."

6. Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club by Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club (Bath, England) (1873)
"... hymenium not papillate, surrounding the whole fungus tremella foliacea, P. Buli., t. 406, fig. A. Bristol. ..."

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