Yellow brain, witches' butter

Description:

The fruit body has an irregular shape, and usually breaks through the bark of dead branches. It is up to 7.5 cm (3.0 in) broad and 2.5 to 5.0 cm (1.0 to 2.0 in) high, rounded to variously lobed or brain-like in appearance. The fruit body is gelatin-like but tough when wet, and hard when dry. The surface is usually smooth, the lobes translucent, deep yellow or bright yellow-orange, fading to pale yellow, rarely unpigmented and white or colorless. The fruit bodies dry to a dark reddish or orange. The spores, viewed in mass, are whitish or pale yellow

Habitat:

Tremella mesenterica has a cosmopolitan distribution, having been recorded from Europe, North, Central, and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.[13][25] Fruit bodies are formed during wet periods throughout the year. In British Columbia, Canada, it is sometimes found on maple, poplar, or pine, but is most abundant on red alder.[7] It prefers to grow in habitats ranging from mesic to wet.[6] The fungus grows parasitically on the mycelium of wood-rotting corticioid fungi in the genus Peniophora.[3] Occasionally, T. mesenterica and its host fungus can be found fruiting together.

Notes:

spotted in river homem félinhos beach,in a mix forest of Lars,eucalypthus and Oaks