It produces yellowish to reddish brown, foliose, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on corticioid fungi (Peniophora species) on dead branches of broadleaf trees and shrubs.

[1] Fruit bodies are gelatinous, buff to ochre-yellow or pale reddish brown, up to 50 mm across, foliose to cerebriform (brain-like).

Microscopically, the hyphae have clamp connections and the basidia are tremelloid (globose to subglobose, with vertical septa), 4-celled, 20 to 30 by 18 to 24 μm.

[1] In North America, fruit bodies of the common and widespread species Tremella mesenterica are similar in appearance but typically bright golden yellow and can be distinguished microscopically by their differently shaped, ellipsoid spores measuring 10 to 16 by 6 to 9.5 μm.

Collections have typically been made on dead attached branches of Cornus (dogwood) and Salix (willow) species, less commonly on other broadleaf trees.