Black Witches Butter - Exidia glandulosa
Top or disk shaped, underside densely covered with small warts, upper surface smooth with sparse warts, dark brown or blackish.
Warlock's Butter, Exidia plana, is similar, but eventually becomes brain-like.
Usually found on dead attached branches of Oak, very occasionally on other broad-leaved species.
All year round.
May grow singly or in clusters.
Common and widespread in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
04 December 2015
David Nicholls
White's Wood, Swithland
28 February 2015
David Nicholls
Ratby Burroughs
24 November 2011
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
18 September 2011
David Nicholls
Ratby Burroughs
24 November 2011
David Nicholls
Great Wood, Ratby
17 December 2011
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Species profile
- Common names
- Witches' Butter
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Auriculariales
- Family:
- Auriculariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 120
- First record:
- 18/09/2011 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 11/03/2025 (Isabel Raval)
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David Nicholls
Lady Hay Wood
21 March 2014
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
04 December 2015
