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Yellow Stagshorn

Inedible Inedible
Autumn Autumn
Spring Spring
Summer Summer
Winter Winter

It is a really beautiful, inedible mushroom. One often can spot it from distance, because it looks like a freshly set fire emerging from conifer stumps or roots.

Mushroom Type
Common Names Yellow Stagshorn (EN), Jelly Antler Fungus (US), Corn Carw Melyn (CY), Pięknoróg Największy (PL), Narancsszínű Enyveskorallgomba (HU)
Scientific Name Calocera viscosa
Synonyms Calocera flammea, Merisma viscosum, Clavaria viscosa
Season Start All Year
Season End All Year
Average Mushroom height (CM) 2–10
Average Cap width (CM)
Please note that each and every mushroom you come across may vary in appearance to these photos.

Fruiting Body

2–9 cm tall, 2–5 cm wide, coral-like, branched (like an antler) and forked. It has a more or less deeply rooting stem. The whole fruit body is bright yellow to orange, darker orange to red when dry, might be paler towards the base. Smooth, viscid or tacky, especially after rains.

Flesh

Yellow, somewhat viscid, tough when dry.

Habitat

Saprotrophic on woods. Grows on stumps, dead branches or roots of Pine and Spruce trees, regardless if they are in a forest, a plantation, a park or a private garden. Sometimes can be found on conifer bark woodchips too.

Possible Confusion

Meadow Coral (Clavulinopsis corniculata), pictured, looks rather identical, but it is often a bit paler and not slimy, not to mention it is growing on different habitat (among grass and mosses).

Taste / Smell

Inedible (there is no tradition of consuming it). Taste and smell is not distinctive.

Frequency

Frequent and widespread all over the UK. It might be found during the whole year, but its main fruiting season starts in mid Summer and ends up late Autumn or early Winter. 

Spores

Spore print is white. Spores elongate-ellipsoid, smooth, colourless (hyaline), with drops, inamyloid (which means: the cell wall doesn’t contain starch).

Other Facts

Yellow Stagshorn is the type species of genus Calocera.

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