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Keywords: Ramariaceae | Ramaria stricta (Fries) Quélet | Hermitage of Braid, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Straight-branched coral [fungus] or upright coral can be found on decayed coniferous and hardwood logs and stumps (i.e., it is lignicolous) throughout Europe and North America. It is not considered edible, but this seems to be due to its toughness and bitterness as opposed to toxicity. The Fungi of California has a factsheet on Ramaria stricta (with more photographs).
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at August 18, 2007 6:47 AM
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Posted by: Lida at August 25, 2007 6:14 PM
Dear Sir,
I am also doing reasearch work on mushroom diversity in J&K INDIA. But i am not able to some of the members of clavaria. Please tell me the right source through which i could identify .Because when i go through literature of India so i am in doubt they may be new species. Kindly help me
with regards
sanjeev koul
Department of Botany
University of Jammu, Jammu india
Posted by: sanjeev koul at March 27, 2008 4:03 AM
i found this coral fungus utop of a rotting stump of a redwood tree. its about 3 and a half inchest tall and 3-4 inches wide. is it edible? i know where a bunch are and i wanted to know if it is ok to eat them for nutritous perpopses.
Posted by: David at December 28, 2008 10:20 AM
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Thanks for your photo. Today I found a bunch of these under the lilacs in my back yard, and used your picture to identify what they are. I looked for "coral mushroom" on google because that's what they look like.