This is a Phaeotremella jelly fungus, they are evolutionarily ancient and absolutely fascinating. For a food source they eat (mycoparasitize) the mycelium of other fungi that grow on the decaying wood (like Stereum). The jelly mushroom is a manifestation of their sexual stage (2N) phase, but they can also live as single celled yeasts in their clonal/asexual stage (1N). The fruiting bodies are filled with complex fiber and bioactive molecules that help this mushroom deter predators, resist rot/mo
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This is a Phaeotremella jelly fungus, they are evolutionarily ancient and absolutely fascinating. For a food source they eat (mycoparasitize) the mycelium of other fungi that grow on the decaying wood (like Stereum). The jelly mushroom is a manifestation of their sexual stage (2N) phase, but they can also live as single celled yeasts in their clonal/asexual stage (1N). The fruiting bodies are filled with complex fiber and bioactive molecules that help this mushroom deter predators, resist rot/mo
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