Ramaria flava    (Schaeff.:Fr.) Quél. 

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

potential confusions with  Ramaria flava toxicity of Ramaria flava genus Ramaria  

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 .
here should be the distribution map of Ramaria flava in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Ramaria flava in the forest of Rambouillet



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