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Small Stagshorn
Calocera cornea
50.8843, 5.98617
Field Notes
Description:
Look for Calocera cornea after heavy rains on the barkless, dead wood of oaks and other hardwoods, where it appears as clusters of slick, cylindric fruiting bodies with rounded-off or somewhat sharpened tips. In fact it looks more like a tiny club fungus than a jelly fungus, but microscopic examination reveals the distinctive Y-shaped basidia that characterize members of the Dacrymycetales--a large group within the jelly fungi.
Description:
Ecology: Saprobic; growing scattered to gregariously on the barkless wood of hardwoods (especially oaks); summer and fall; widely distributed in North America.
Fruiting Body: Cylindric, with rounded to sharpened tips; occasionally shallowly forked near the tip; to about 2 cm high and 3 mm thick; smooth and slick; firm but gelatinous; orangish yellow.
Spore Print: White to yellowish
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Habitat:
location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream, Yellow
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Other
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on wood
Calocera cornea (Batsch ex Fr.) Fr. Zäher Hörnling Small Stagshorn Fruit body 4–10mm high, awl-shaped, rarely forked, tough-gelatinous, yellow when fresh drying more orange. Spores white, sausage-shaped, 7–10×3–4µ. Basidia shaped like tuning-forks. Habitat crowded on twigs and branches of deciduous trees. Season all year. Frequent. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe
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Notes:
Calocera cornea is a jelly fungus that grows on decaying wood. It is a member of the Dacrymycetales, an order of fungi characterized by their unique "tuning fork" basidia.
Its yellow, finger-like, tapering basidiocarps are somewhat gelatinous in texture. In typical specimens the basidiocarps become up to 3 mm in diameter, and 2 cm in height. The hymenium covers the sides of the basidiocarps, each basidium producing and forcibly discharging only two basidiospores
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