Common Jellyspot - Dacrymyces stillatus
Fruit body 1 to 5mm across, gelatinous, more or less cushion-shaped often merging into one another, orange-yellow becoming darker reddish and wrinkled with age. It has two forms; orange cushions mixed with dingy yellow growths, each producing a different type of spore.
In wooded areas, grows on damp decaying wood.
All year round
Common and widespread in Britain.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Sheet Hedges Wood
02 January 2012
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 November 2005
orange cushions mixed with dingy yellow growths
David Nicholls
Sheet Hedges Wood
10 December 2011
David Nicholls
Ratby Burroughs
24 November 2011
David Nicholls
Thornton Reservoir
16 November 2012
Graham Calow
Sapcote
14 February 2013
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Jelly Spot
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Dacrymycetales
- Family:
- Dacrymycetaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 151
- First record:
- 05/11/2005 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 17/02/2025 (Isabel Raval)
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 Dacrymyces stillatus (Common Jelly Spot) Leicester Road Quarry SP 4962 9388 (taken 14.2.2007).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
14 February 2007
David Nicholls
Cow Lane, Ratby
17 December 2011
 Dacrymyces stillatus (Common Jelly Spot) Leicester Road Quarry SP 4962 9388 (taken 14.2.2007).JPG)
