Have you ever hiked through an oak woodland and you´ve seen something like butter? That´s witches' butter. It is 5cm across. Witches butter is a burnt, light or dark yellow. It stays yellow a few days then it is burnt or black color. Witches' butter looks like butter.

     Witches' butter lives in rainy places. It is widely distributed in North America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America. Witches' butter lives in Oak woodlands. It lives in Rockville Hills because it rains often.

     Did you know that witches' butter is edible? It is ONLY edible BOILED or STEAMED. Although witches' butter is a type of fungus it is edible. Witches' butter is tasteless. The Patwins used witches' butter as a consumable resource.

     Witches' butter is a medical fungus. It has healing properties.

Witches' butter is used as a medicine in Asia for millennia.

                         

                                       Interesting Facts

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                          1. Witches' butter is a fungi that grows on other fungus.

                         2.Witches' butter is not a poisonous fungus so you can touch it.

                         3. Witches' butter is also called yellow brain and golden jelly fungus​.

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