Snow fungus
Tremella fuciformis · 银耳
Common银耳科🍽 Cultivated Edible
A commercially cultivated edible fungus. Buy wild specimens only through reputable, regulated sources.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Pure white and translucent, with petal-like lobes layered on layered
- Soft and gelatinous, turning hard and yellow when dry
- Grows on dead hardwood
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 银耳科
- Hymenium
- Smooth
- Grows On
- Wood
- How Big
- 5–15 cm (overall size)
- Encounter Rate
- Common
- Habitat
- Rotting hardwood
Easily Confused With
Elm earEar-shaped and gelatinous, white to pale pinkFun Fact
Snow fungus can't fruit on its own — a partner fungus, the 'incense-ash fungus,' has to break the wood down first before it can grow alongside that neighbor.
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