Jelly fungi are a paraphyletic group of several heterobasidiomycete fungal orders from different classes of the subphylum Agaricomycotina: Tremellales, Dacrymycetales, Auriculariales and Sebacinales.[1][2] These fungi are so named because their foliose, irregularly branched fruiting body is, or appears to be, the consistency of jelly. Actually, many are somewhat rubbery and gelatinous. When dried, jelly fungi become hard and shriveled; when exposed to water, they return to their original form.
Many species of jelly fungi can be eaten raw; poisonous jelly fungi are rare. However, many species have an unpalatable texture or taste. They may or may not be sought in mushroom hunting due to their taste, which is described as similar to that of soil. However, some species, Tremella fuciformis for example, are not only edible but prized for use in soup and vegetable dishes.
of China. T. fuciformis is commonly known as snow fungus, snow ear, silver ear fungus, white jelly mushroom, and white cloud ears. T. fuciformis is a...
(common names include yellow brain, golden jellyfungus, yellow trembler, and witches' butter) is a common jellyfungus in the family Tremellaceae of the Agaricomycotina...
chrysospermus is a species of jellyfungus in the family Dacrymycetaceae. In the UK it has the recommended English name of orange jelly spot; in North America...
gelatinosum, commonly known as the toothed jellyfungus, cat's tongue, or jelly tooth, is an Eurasian species of fungus in the order Auriculariales. Its common...
Petroleum jelly, petrolatum, white petrolatum, soft paraffin, or multi-hydrocarbon, CAS number 8009-03-8, is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons (with...
hymenophore, if present. Growth forms include: jellyfungus – fruiting body is jelly-like. club fungus and coral fungus – erect fruiting body without a distinct...
commonly known as black witches' butter, black jelly roll, or warty jellyfungus, is a jellyfungus in the family Auriculariaceae. It is a common, wood-rotting...
America it is variously called coral jellyfungus, jelly staghorn, yellow false coral, yellow tuning fork, and jelly antler. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies)...
fungus in the Auriculariales order. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Guepinia helvelloides, commonly known as the apricot jelly...
"tooth fungi". The ear-pick fungus and other species of Auriscalpium (Russulales) are hydnoid, as is the odd jellyfungus Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (Auriculariales)...
Sebacina sparassoidea, the white coral jellyfungus, is a species of fungus in the family Sebacinaceae. Its coral-like basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are...
large scale in Korea and Japan. Tremella fuciformis (Snow fungus), another type of jellyfungus that is commonly used in Chinese cuisine. Tuber species...
gelatinous fungus that grows on decaying wood. Observations made of star jelly in Scotland support the theory that one origin of star jelly is spawn jelly from...
Exidia nigricans (common name Witches' butter) is a jellyfungus in the family Auriculariaceae. It is a common, wood-rotting species throughout the Northern...
sexual and asexual forms. Colloquially known as jelly drops or the purple jellydisc, this common fungus appears as a gelatinous mass of pinkish or purple-colored...
Exidia saccharina, commonly known as the pine jelly, is an orange-brown jellyfungus that grows saprotrophically on dead conifers. It is found most commonly...
Screaming jelly babies - a popular chemistry experiment demonstrating oxidation reactions. Jelly baby - Leotia lubrica a type of small woodland fungus which...
Dacryopinax elegans is a species of jellyfungus in the family Dacrymycetaceae. It was originally formally described as Guepinia elegans by Miles Berkeley...
Exidia thuretiana (common name white brain) is a jellyfungus in the family Auriculariaceae. The fruit bodies are white and gelatinous with brain-like...
Guepiniopsis alpina, commonly known as the jelly cup, alpine jelly cone, or poor man's gumdrop, is a species of fungus in the family Dacrymycetaceae. The small...
"basidia" act as the dispersal agents, e.g. the peculiar mycoparasitic jellyfungus, Tetragoniomyces or the entire "basidium" acts as a "spore", e.g. in...
A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. Toadstool...
the bleeding conifer parchment. It can be the host of the parasitic jellyfungus Tremella encephala. The species was first described scientifically by...
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