Dacryopinax elegans

Description

Look a bit like Wood ears on stalks but actually unrelated to Auricularia. Instead it is closely related to Dacryopinax spathularia (Spathula Shapped Yellow Jelly) but it is bigger all round. Grows on fallen logs that are well rotted and have lost all their bark.  

Links:

• Index Fungorum: 285969
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• Mushroom Observer
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Observations:

• Mushroom Observer Pennsylvania Distribution
• MycoPortal Pennsylvania vouchers
• iNaturalist Pennsylvania Observations

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