Guepinia helvelloides
Salmon salad, Guepinia helvelloides (DC.) Fr.
Source: Czech Wikipedia
Classification
Kingdom Fungi
Phylum Basidiomycota
Class Basidiomycetes
Order Tremellales
Family Exidiaceae
Genus Guepinia
Guepinia rufa (Jacq.) Beck
Guepinia rufa (DC.) Keissl.
Gyrocephalus rufus (Jacq.) Bref.
Phlogiotis helvelloides (DC.) G.W. Martin
Phlogiotis rufa (Jacq.) Quél.
Tremella helvelloides DC.
Tremella rufa Jacq.
Tremiscus helvelloides (DC.) Donk
Salmon salad
Candied Red Jelly Fungus
Fruiting body: 3-15 cm high, 4-6 cm wide, infundibuloform or ear-shaped with a lobed, flaring margin; red to red/orange to salmon-pink; smooth or slightly wrinkled.
Stem: short, off-center, pallid.
Flesh: elastic; gelatinous; tough when dry.
Spores: hyaline, smooth, oblong to irregularly elliptical with a distinct apiculus, non-amyloid, 9.5-11 x 5-6 µm.
Spore print: white.
Habitat and habitat: gregarious to caespitose; on rotting wood or on the ground under conifers. Found in Europe and North America, infrequent but widespread. Has been reported in Turkey (Türkoğlu et al., 2007).
Season: Spring, autumn.
Edibility: Edible.
Picture source: Italian Wikipedia
Polysaccharides extracted from the mycelial culture of G. helvelloides and administered intraperitoneally into white mice at a dosage of 300 mg/kg inhibited the growth of Sarcoma 180 and Ehrlich solid cancers by 100% (Ohtsuka et al., 1973).
Web
There's a gallery of pics of G. helvelloides in various poses at BioImages.
Mushroom Expert has additional information.
References
Ohtsuka S, Ueno S, Yoshikumi C, Hirose F, Ohmura Y, Wada T, Fujii T, Takahashi E.
Polysaccharides having an anticarcinogenic effect and a method of producing them from species of Basidiomycetes.
UK Patent 1331513, 26 September 1973.
Türkoğlu A, Kaşik G, Öztürk C, Doğan HH.
New records for the macrofungi of Turkey.
Turkish Journal of Botany. 2007 31(5):471-5.
Last modified: 17-Aug-2008
