Dacryopinax spathularia, an edible jelly mushroom, grows on rotting wood. Jelly fungi are paraphyletic fungi of heterobasidiomycete fungi in different classes in the subphylum Agaricomycotina: Tremellales, Dacrymycetales, Auriculariales, and Sebacinales. This fungus is so named because it is foliose, with irregular branches growing fruit, or appearing like jelly. Many are a bit chewy. When dry, jelly mushrooms become hard and wrinkled; when exposed to water, they return to their original form.