jelly fungus

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English[edit]

Auricularia auricula-judae, an edible jelly fungus

Noun[edit]

jelly fungus (plural jelly fungi)

  1. Any of various fungi with an irregularly branched fruiting body apparently of jelly-like consistency.
    • 1968, Robert Thomas Orr, Dorothy B. Orr, Mushrooms and Other Common Fungi of Southern California, page 18:
      This yellow jelly fungus, commonly known as Witch's Butter, is seen only during the rainy season.
    • 2005, Ming Hao Pei, Carlos Bayon, Carmen Ruiz, “1: Phylogenetic Position of Melampsora in Rust Fungi Inferred from Ribosomal DNA Sequences”, in Ming Hao Pei, Alistair R. McCracken, editors, Rust Diseases of Willow and Poplar, page 4:
      Auricularia (jelly fungi) was placed within Hymenomycetes in the gene trees, which showed that the split between Urediniomycetes and Hymenomycetes occurred long before the split between jelly fungi and mushrooms.
    • 2010, Michael Kuo, Andy Methven, 100 Cool Mushrooms, page 185:
      Tremella fuciformis is a tropical and subtropical jelly fungus found on hardwood logs after heavy rains. It is whitish or nearly transparent, and fairly large (up to 7 cm across)—and it features graceful gelatinous lobes rather than the glob-like blobs that typify so many other jelly fungi.

Usage notes[edit]

Jelly fungi were formerly included in the (now obsolete) paraphyletic grouping Heterobasidiomycetes, but are now spread among several orders: Tremellales, Dacrymycetales, Auriculariales, and Sebacinales. The grouping Heterobasidiomycetes is still used informally.

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