Ramaria pallida    (Schaeff.) Ricken 

common name(s) : Pale Coral Fungus 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Phallomycetidae/Gomphales/Gomphaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae/Cantharellales/Clavariaceae  

synonyms: Ramaria mairei, Clavaria pallida, Clavaria mairei 

edibility : poisonous

potential confusions with Ramaria pallida toxicity of Ramaria pallida genus Ramaria  

The fruiting body is shaped like a branched shrub, with cylindrical branches, pale pink-white to cream (violet at base and tips), stained with brown when ageing, without stem, but with a white to greyish yellow trunk.

The flesh is white, brittle, unchanging; the odour is of beef broth.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from August to October.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 8 cm (between 0 and 15 cm)
  total height approximately 12 cm (between 8 and 15 cm)

Distinctive features : branched; cream-white to light brown branches, with short lilac reddish-pink tips, V-shaped, longitudinally wrinkled

Ramaria pallida is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .



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