Ramaria flava (Schaeff.:Fr.) Quél.
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common name(s) : Yellow Coral Fungus
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Phallomycetidae/Gomphales/Gomphaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae/Cantharellales/Clavariaceae
synonyms: Clavaria flava
edibility : edible
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The fruiting body is shaped like a branched shrub, with lemon yellow cylindrical branches, salmon-yellow to orange-yellow, without stem, but with a thick trunk, white at the base.
The fertile surface is smooth.
It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, with beech.
The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: |
width of fruiting body approximately 12 cm (between 7 and 15 cm) |
| total height approximately 14 cm (between 6 and 20 cm) |
| width of stem approximately 60 mm (between 50 and 70 mm) |
Distinctive features : branched; branches with golden yellow tips becoming concolorous with branches (salmon pink); multiple branchings, not U shaped; long distance between nodes; flesh becoming reddish in wounds or when touched and aged;
Ramaria flava is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Ramaria flava in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18