FungiFriday: Orange Witch's Butter

A few days ago, my friend asked me to accompany him to Guha Rimueng Hill, on the outskirts of Lhoksemumawe. There was a garden that belonged to his parents, and in that garden, there were many candlenut trees with ripe fruit and many that had fallen and been scattered on the ground. Instead of being eaten by wild animals, he wanted to take the candlenuts and sell them in the traditional market.

I asked him as soon as we got there. "Could it be that I can find mushrooms here?"

"Just try to find them, maybe you can find them around. But before that, you have to smear your skin with mosquito-repellent lotion. If not, you will be overwhelmed by their viciousness." He said this, picking up the fallen candlenuts and collecting them in burlap.

I let him do his thing while I started looking for shrooms here and there. Maybe because it hadn't rained recently, I only found orange jelly mushrooms there.

Yes, that was the orange witch's butter, which in Latin is called Dacrymyces chrysospermus . The texture of the mushrooms is somewhat rubbery, and they grow in crevices of dead wood. The basidiocarps of the fungus are dense sputum, sometimes translucent, and some bright orange.

It's better to get this one than nothing. Because all mushrooms are beautiful, it depends on what angle you shoot them from.