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Jelly Fungi
| Is it not stalked, earlike, cuplike or irregular masses
of no particular form; always on wood? ............
...........................
Yes |
Is it as stalked clubs, sometimes with inflated heads,
spoon-shaped with teeth or fan-shaped, grows on wood or ground?
Yes |
| Does it have yellow cups or pustules growing in
groups in conifer wood during the spring; grows in the West?
Yes |
Does it grow in jelly-like masses of earlike yellow,
orange, or brown? ................................
............... ...........................
Yes |
|
You have a Guepiniopsis
alpinus |
| Does it have brown to gray-brown lobes; a wrinkled
fruiting body?
Yes |
Does it grow in yellow to orange jelly-like masses?
Yes |
| Is it large, 1" to 6' long, ear-shaped, lobed,
sometimes wrinkled, tough, cinnamon-brown? ........................
.............................
Yes |
Is it smaller, 1" - 2.5", irregular, branched
and lobed to wrinkled; soft, very thin, dark brown, covered with large
warts?
Yes |
|
You have an Auricularia
auricula |
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You have an Exida glandulosa |
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Is it yellow-orange, firm with
a white base, collapses when dried?
Yes |
Is it orange to golden-yellow, horny when dried, base
not white?
Yes |
|
You have an Dacrymyces
palmatus |
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You have an Tremella
mesentrica |
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Is it slender, coral-like, cylindrical, branched,
orange-yellow, pliant; viscid stalks; grows on conifer wood?
Yes |
Is not coral-like; has an expanded distinctive head? .......................
............................. ........................
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Yes |
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You have a Calocera viscosa |
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Is it gelatinous, dull whitish, translucent with
small white teeth; often spoon-shaped?
Yes |
Is it funnel-shaped to fan-shaped without teeth, pink
to rose, firm gelatinous; grows on the ground?
Yes |
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You have a Psuedohydym
gelatinosum |
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You have a Phlogiotis
helvelloides |
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