Ramaria sanguinea    (Pers.) Quél. 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Phallomycetidae/Gomphales/Gomphaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae/Cantharellales/Clavariaceae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Ramaria flava-sanguinea)  

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Ramaria sanguinea toxicity of Ramaria sanguinea genus Ramaria  

The fruiting body is shaped like a branched shrub, with cylindrical branches, lemon-yellow, without stem, but with a thick white trunk, stained with blood red or vinaceous with age.

The fertile surface is smooth.

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

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 9 cm (between 5 and 12 cm)

Distinctive features : branched; reddening trunk

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



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