Tremella fuciformis

Image © Clive Shirley Reproduced by permission Common Name: White Jelly Fungus

The fruiting body is a mass of white, translucent gelatinous fungal material. It may form convoluted or lobed folds. As it dries, it shrinks to almost nothing. It is usually 3 - 15cm across. The spores are borne on the upright lobes, not on gills. There is no pileus or stipe. Literally: a quivering little bee-glue shape. (Tremor [L.] - trembling, quivering; fucus [L.] - bee-glue; forma [L.]- form, shape.

• Fruiting Body

  A mass of white, translucent gelatinous fungal material. It may form convoluted or lobed folds. As it dries, it shrinks to almost nothing. It is usually 3 - 15cm across. The spores are borne on the upright lobes, not on gills. There is no pileus or stipe.

• Smell

• Spores

  Spore print white.

• Habitat

  On wood, though usually in association with a "companion fungus" such as species of the black Ascomycete, Hypoxylon. The companion fungus degrades the wood, preparing it for the Tremella.

• References

  Fuhrer, B. Field Companion to Australian Fungi p. 138

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