Mushrooms List
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Mushrooms List
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Dacrymyces Family [Dacrymycetaceae] 
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| 10th July 2009, Deciduous woods, Rosthwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| A widespread and common orange-yellow jelly fungus (in the top UK 100 charts). Growing on a sawn-off tree-stump. Found after wet periods and thereafter throughout the year. |
| 10th July 2009, Deciduous woods, Rosthwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| It is semi-translucent and gelatinous, very short and yellow, but dries a darker shade. Occasionally white forms are found. |
| 10th July 2009, Deciduous woods, Rosthwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Grows on the decayed wood of deciduous or coniferous trees. Forms either a flattish cushion, knob and sometimes a cup-shape - there are several with circular depresssions at the top visible in the photo here. Several may coalesce into an amorphous brain-shaped mass. At first smooth but undulating, but later wrinkles. It deliquesces into a glutinous slimy mess when older. |
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Related to : Yellow Stag's-horn Fungus (Calocera pallipdospathulata) but is much shorter and is in a differing genus (Calocera) although in the same Family (Dacrymycetaceae) and also to Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : Grows on dead wood, is yellow or orange-yellow and appears as short oddly-shaped stumps or clubs, some of which are slightly flattened, between 0.5 to 1.5 cm tall.
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 Dacrymyces
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stillatus
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Dacrymycetaceae
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Dacrymycets Family [Dacrymycetaceae]
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