Ramaria formosa    (Fr.) Quél. 

common name(s) : Salmon Coral, Beautiful Coral Fungus 

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

synonyms: Clavaria formosa, Clavariella formosa 

edibility : poisonous

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

The fruiting body is shaped like a branched shrub, with cylindrical branches, brown-pink to pink-orange, without stem, but with a thick trunk, white with pinkish shades, on white mycelial strands.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, with beech, ash.

The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 13 cm (between 6 and 20 cm)
  total height approximately 17 cm (between 5 and 30 cm)
  width of stem approximately 45 mm (between 40 and 50 mm)

Distinctive features : branched; with pink and yellow branches, and lemon yellow tips; branchings U-shaped (not V-shaped); bitter or acid taste; white flesh becoming vinaceous red when cut

Ramaria formosa is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Ramaria formosa in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Ramaria formosa in the forest of Rambouillet



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