Amber Jelly

Amber Jelly is a orange-brown or amber, gelatinous fungus. It is firm and shallowly conical at first, becoming more variable in shape with age. Individual fruit bodies are cessile or have very short stalks.

It is usually a winter fungus and appears on dead twigs of standing and fallen willows and very occasionally other hardwoods, but can be seen from late autumn, through winter and into early spring.

It is also referred to as, Willow Jelly or Amber Jelly Roll.

Amber Jelly is widespread, but local in Britain.