Ramaria stricta    (Pers.:Fr.) Quél. 

common name(s) : Upright Coral, Straight Coral Fungus 

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

synonyms: Clavaria stricta 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Clavaria condensata, Ramaria condensata, Clavaria stricta-condensata, Clavaria dendroidea)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Ramaria stricta
photo gallery of  Ramaria stricta potential confusions with  Ramaria stricta toxicity of Ramaria stricta genus Ramaria  

The fruiting body is shaped like a branched shrub, with cylindrical branches, dirty yellow to ochre or flesh pink, without stem, but with a slender white trunk with mycelial strands at the base.

the odour is faint sweet to unpleasant.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on dead coniferous or deciduous wood.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  total height approximately 7 cm (between 4 and 11 cm)
  width of stem approximately 10 mm (between 5 and 15 mm)

Distinctive features : branched, turning reddish-brown when bruised; 2- or 3-toothed sulphur-yellow tips; vertical branches; bitter to peppery taste

Ramaria stricta is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Ramaria stricta in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Ramaria stricta in the forest of Rambouillet



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