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Coral fungus
Ramaria ochraceosalmonicolor
-37.892, 145.315
Field Notes
Description:
Fungi with irregularly branching fruiting bodies about 60 mm high. The tips were slightly rounded. The fruiting bodies were a brownish-pink.
Habitat:
Spotted amongst damp leaf litter - damp Eucalyptus forest.
Notes:
Thanks to Clive Shirley for correcting the ID ( originally labelled as Clavulina sp). A tan spore print would have confirmed this as Ramaria.
This species according to Bill Leithhead is "a very common Australian mycorrhizal species, to 150 mm high, growing in dense bunches, branching 4 or 5 times; tips of branches either acute or rounded, sometimes compressed like cauliflowers. Tips yellowish-pink, body salmon-pink or orange; shading to white or pale near the base. Spore print ochre brown. Often forms rings or arcs in eucalypt forest." <br> Also called Ramaria capitata.
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