It is a common and widely distributed wood-decay fungus that grows on the rotting wood of both hardwood and conifer plants.

The fungus was originally described in 1794 by German botanist Heinrich Adolf Schrader, who called it Merulius tremellosus.

[6] The undersurface, bearing the fertile hymenium, features radiating to wrinkled ridges and cross veins, and often forms pore-like depressions on mature specimens.

The flesh of this fungus is about 2 mm thick, with a fleshy to gelatinous texture and white to yellowish colour.

It is a white rot species that grows on the stumps, fallen branches, and logs of both hardwoods and conifers.