Tremella fuciformis, "White Jelly Fungus", "Snow Fungus", "Siver Tree-ear Fungus" is widespread and common world-wide, early in the wood-rotting cycle, growing parasitically on (or at least in association with) existing wood-rotting crust fungi such as Hypoxylon spp. and Stereum spp. Fruit bodies up to 160 mm long, to 60 mm high, very complexly lobed and folded, colourless to off-white, translucent to opaque; forms colonies; dries to a creamy-yellow shrunken mass, reconstituting in water. Eaten in Asia in various sweet dishes. Myrtle Loop Walk, The Beeches, Marysville, 2007.