With old fruiting bodies of Stereum hirsutum. 4 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Multiple leaf like lobes, bright orange, becoming paler with age, to about 15 cm across Flesh Gelatinous, yellow Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn to spring Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat Parasitic on Stereum hirsutum, on dead wood from broadleaf trees Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (5.5-9) x (4.5-7) µm2 Edibility Unknown Notes This fungus is macroscopically very similar to Tremella mesenterica. The relative occurrence of the two species is unknown, and many records of the latter fungus may be misidentifications. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objection. 4 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On oak, with the host fungus. Hampshire 9 January 2021. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objection. 9 January 2021 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |