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Yellow jelly fungus

Dacrymyces or Tremella Genus

Moderate–high confidence TM0095 8 August 2026 · 10:27 3 frames
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Angles captured. 3 frames of one subject.

Morphology

A scattered line of small bright egg-yellow gelatinous blobs, 5–15 mm, glistening and soft, running along a barkless log; one larger fan-shaped mass 3 cm across.

Habitat & substrate

On a weathered barkless log with green algal staining.

Lookalikes & what rules them out

Same pair as the Leominster jellies — Dacrymyces on conifer, Tremella on hardwood.

Notes

Third jelly record in the guide; all three sit at the same fork.

Found at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Princeton, MA on Saturday, 8 August 2026 at 10:27. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.

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