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Red Tree Brain

Peniophora rufa (Fr.)

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Description:

Red Tree Brain mushrooms look like little brains. They are small and red-orange and wrinkled.

Habitat:

March-December and sometimes overwinter. They grow on dead twigs and branches of trembling aspen and other poplars.

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Nonflowering Plants & Mushrooms of the NorthEastern US
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PublishedDecember 7, 2013

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