Black Witches’ Butter.
Sunrise 08:18 am Sunset: 04:12 pm
Exidia glandulosa is often referred to as Black Witches’ Butter, perhaps because of its butter-like consistency when wet and its sombre colour; it appears throughout the year on dead hardwood. An alternative theory for the origin of its common name is that it was thought to have the power to counteract witchcraft if the fungi were thrown on to a blazing fire.
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Won’t be spreading this on my toast any time soon.
Well, it’s supposed to be edible, but bland.
I think I’ll give this stuff a miss – it looks like a hideous black frog’s skin I photographed a few month’s ago.
This fungi seems to be everywhere in Hoo Wood at the moment. It is messy stuff!