🇬🇧 common jelly spot - 🇩🇪 Zerfließende Gallertträne - 🇪🇪 Tava-pisarseen - 🇷🇺 Дакримицес исчезающий 11/23/25
🆔 Dacrymyces stillatus Nees
❌ Hymenium: N/A in the usual sense (gelatinous basidiocarp without typical gills or pores)
❌ Cap: Absent in typical format — fruit bodies are small, cushion-shaped or blob-like, gelatinous orange-yellow turning brown/red with age
❌ Hymenium Attachment: N/A
❌ Stipe: Absent or extremely rudimentary
❌ Spore print (basidiospores produced in situ)
🪵🍂 Saprobic on decaying wood of both hardwoods and conifers, fruiting whenever damp
🤐 Too small and gelatinous to be of culinary value
📏 Fruit bodyv Very small, can appear larger when merged
📐 Cap/fruit body size ∅ ~1–5 mm (blobs/cushions)
🔪 Flesh gelatinous, translucent to orange-yellow, unchanging when cut
🧪 No reagent reaction
👃 Not distinctive
👅 Not distinctive
🔬 Spores sausage-shaped or elongated (14–17×~5–6µm); 3-septate at maturity, basidia Y-shaped and chains of arthrospores present
🔤 Tiny orange-gelatinous cushions or blobs on decaying wood, often merging into irregular masses
🇬🇧 common jelly spot - 🇩🇪 Zerfließende Gallertträne - 🇪🇪 Tava-pisarseen - 🇷🇺 Дакримицес исчезающий