Description ³

Dacrymyces chrysospermus is a yellow-orange jelly fungus which closely mimics Tremella aurantia, the common witch's butter. The two taxa are best told apart in the field by differences in habit and substrate. Tremella aurantia is a parasite of Stereum species and typically fruits with its host on hardwoods usually with intact bark. In contrast, Dacrymyces chrysospermus occurs on decorticated conifer wood and is not associated with Stereum species.

FRUITBODY orange-yellow, but almost white at the point of attachment, becoming reddish-brown and more translucent when dry; irregularly lobed or brain-like blobs, slightly flattened; 1 to 2.5cm tall and up to 6cm wide. SPORE COLOR pale yellow. ODOR and TASTE not distinctive. HABITAT On rotting trunks and stumps of dead conifers.

http://mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Dacrymyces_chrysospermus.html
https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/dacrymyces-chrysospermus.php
https://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/jelly%20fungi/species%20pages/Dacrymyces%20chrysospermus.htm

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2. (c) Bill MacIndewar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bill MacIndewar
3. (c) N Carson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/1191220

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