Tremella volcanaqua
A jelly fungus described by Bernard Lowy in 1964, named after Volcán de Agua in Guatemala where the type was collected on dead angiosperm wood. A second record comes from the Carite forest in Puerto Rico's Sierra de Cayey at 700 m. It belongs to the cool, wet tropical mountains.
Where it grows wild
On dead angiosperm (broadleaf) wood in montane forest, presumably parasitising a wood-decay fungus as other Tremella do.
The Puerto Rican record is at 700 m; the Guatemalan grid site is placed at about 3700 m on the volcano, which is probably higher than the actual collection.
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