Dacrymyces chrysospermus    (Bull.) Tul. 

common name(s) : Orange Jelly Spot 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Basidiomycotina/Dacrymycetes/Incertae sedis/Dacrymycetales/Dacrymycetaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Phragmobasidiomycetes/Auriculariomycetidae/Dacrymycetaceae  

synonyms: Dacrymyces palmatus 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Dacryomyces chrysospermus, Sepedonium chrysospermum)  

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with  Dacrymyces chrysospermus toxicity of Dacrymyces chrysospermus genus Dacrymyces  

The fruiting body is cushion-shaped, folded and lobed, bright orange-yellowish, without stem.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on dead wood of coniferous trees, in the mountains, on spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 3 cm (between 1 and 6 cm)
  total height approximately 2 cm (between 1 and 2.5 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Dacrymyces chrysospermus is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Dacrymyces chrysospermus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Dacrymyces chrysospermus in the forest of Rambouillet



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