Species details
Jelly rot
Phlebia tremellosa
Inedible
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Description
A soft gelatinous bracket fungus with a whitish margin and strongly wrinkled orange to pink fertile surface.
Identification features
Fruitbodies form semicircular brackets up to about 4 cm, often shingled. The upper side is downy and pale; the underside orange to pink-brown, wrinkled-labyrinthine and gelatinous.
Identification checklist
Check the soft gelatinous brackets and underside with orange-pink, strongly twisted folds and ridges.
Detailed features
- Hymenophore
- The upper surface is felted and pale; the underside is orange to pinkish-brown, wrinkled-maze-like and gelatinous.
Habitat
Grows on stumps and dead hardwood, occasionally conifer wood, mainly in autumn and early winter.
Fruiting period
September, October, November, December
Ecology
- Substrate
- Dead wood, Stumps
- Notes
- Grows on stumps and dead hardwood, occasionally conifer wood, mainly in autumn and early winter.
How to separate similar species
Phlebia radiata is more crust-like and lacks such distinctly soft brackets. Related species can be similar.
Similar species
- Wrinkled crust (Phlebia radiata)
- Wrinkled crust (Phlebia rufa)
- Merulius species