Calocera Cornea

Day 245: Calocera cornea frequently emerges from its substrate following heavy or prolonged rainfall, and we've had plenty of precipitation for the month of June to date, so I was not surprised to find it erupting from a piece of barkless, downed alder recently. It grows on a variety of different hardwoods. A "cousin" species, C. viscosa prefers to keep itself specifically to the wood of conifers, but its tips are forked. Calocera cornea may be quite abundant where it occurs, as was the case on this particular log. Despite its superficial resemblance to the coralloid species, it is in fact a jelly fungus.