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.