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The class Heterobasidiomycetes or jelly fungi is a paraphyletic group of several fungal orders: Tremellales
Tremellales

Tremellales is an order in the fungal class Tremellomycetes. Taxa are saprobic and grow on wood.References...
, Auriculariales
Auriculariales

Auriculariales is an order of fungi. It contains the single family Auriculariaceae....
, Dacrymycetales. These fungi are so named because their foliose to irregularly branched fruiting body
Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi that have a stem , a cap , and gills on the unde...
 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
Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
, they return to their original form.

A number of the jelly fungi can be eaten raw; poisonous jelly fungi are rare.






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The class Heterobasidiomycetes or jelly fungi is a paraphyletic group of several fungal orders: Tremellales
Tremellales

Tremellales is an order in the fungal class Tremellomycetes. Taxa are saprobic and grow on wood.References...
, Auriculariales
Auriculariales

Auriculariales is an order of fungi. It contains the single family Auriculariaceae....
, Dacrymycetales. These fungi are so named because their foliose to irregularly branched fruiting body
Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi that have a stem , a cap , and gills on the unde...
 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
Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
, they return to their original form.

A number of the jelly fungi can be eaten raw; poisonous jelly fungi are rare. However, many species are not of a texture or taste that one would want to consume. They may or may not be sought in mushroom hunting
Mushroom hunting

Mushroom hunting, mushrooming, mushroom picking and similar terms describe the activity of hunter-gatherer mushrooms in the wild, typically for eating....
 due to their taste
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, which is described as similar to that of soil
Soil

Soil is the naturally occurring, unconsolidated or loose covering on the Earth's surface. Soil is composed of particles of broken rock that have been altered by chemical and environmental processes including weathering and erosion....
. However, some species, Tremella fuciformis
Snow fungus

Snow fungus is a type of jelly fungi that is used in Chinese cuisine. In Chinese, it is called wikt:?? , wikt:?? ; or wikt:??? , and in Japanese it is called shiro kikurage ....
 for example, are not only edible but prized for use in soup and vegetable dishes.

List of jellies

  • Auricularia auricula-judae
    Auricularia auricula-judae

    Auricularia auricula-judae is commonly known as Judas's ear fungus or Jew's Ear, the name from which it derives the "judae" in its scientific name, or as the jelly ear fungus....
     - wood ear, Judas' ear, Jew's Ear
  • Auricularia polytricha - cloud ear
  • Calocera cornea
    Calocera cornea

    Calocera cornea is a jelly fungus that grows on decaying wood. It is a member of the Dacrymycetales, an order of fungi characterized by their unique "tuning fork" basidia....
  • Calocera viscosa - yellow tuning fork, yellow stagshorn fungus
  • Dacrymyces palmatus - orange jelly
  • Dacryopinax spathularia
    Dacryopinax spathularia

    Dacryopinax spathularia is an edible jelly fungus. It is orange in color. In Chinese culture, it is called guihua er . It is sometimes included in a vegetarian dish called Buddha's delight....
  • Exidia glandulosa - black jelly roll, witches' butter
  • Guepiniopsis alpinus - golden jelly cone
  • Phlogiotis helvelloides - apricot jelly
  • Pseudohydnum gelatinosum
    Pseudohydnum gelatinosum

    Pseudohydnum gelatinosum is an edible mushroom, which is common from Alaska to northern California. Although bland, it can be candied or marinated....
     - jelly tooth, jelly tongue
  • Tremella foliacea - jelly leaf
  • Tremella fuciformis
    Snow fungus

    Snow fungus is a type of jelly fungi that is used in Chinese cuisine. In Chinese, it is called wikt:?? , wikt:?? ; or wikt:??? , and in Japanese it is called shiro kikurage ....
     - snow fungus
  • Tremella mesenterica
    Tremella mesenterica

    Tremella mesenterica is a jelly fungus that is commonly found on rotting wood, especially Common Gorse, as a parasite of crust fungi of the genus Peniophora....
     - witches' butter, yellow brain fungus
  • Tremellodendron pallidium - jellied false coral


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