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Red Tree Brain

Peniophora rufa (Fr.)

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44.0506, -72.5425

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Description:

Small, red, waxy, cartilaginouse, stalkless, wartlike, and coarsely wrinkled, the Red Tree Brain sticks out like a sore thumb this time of the year. They overwinter.

Habitat:

On dead twigs and branches of trembling aspen and other poplars.

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Wildlife with Snow, Frost, and Ice - NorthEastern United States
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Nonflowering Plants & Mushrooms of the NorthEastern US
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2016

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