Calocera cornea    (Batsch:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Small Stagshorn 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Basidiomycotina/Dacrymycetes/Incertae sedis/Dacrymycetales/Dacrymycetaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/(transition)/Dacrymycetales  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Calocera cornea
photo gallery of Calocera cornea potential confusions with Calocera cornea toxicity of Calocera cornea genus Calocera  

The fruiting body is awl-shaped or horn-shaped, yellow, orange when drying.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on branches of broad-leaved wood.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 0.2 cm (between 0.1 and 0.2 cm)
  total height approximately 0.8 cm (between 0.2 and 2 cm)

Distinctive features : simple (not branching), in troops, gelatinous

Calocera cornea is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Calocera cornea in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Calocera cornea in the forest of Rambouillet



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