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Lentaria delicata.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Rindenkoralle
Lentaria delicata Mushroom
Ref No: 9352
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Lentaria delicata2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9353
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Other
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on wood

Lentaria delicata Fr. syn. Clavaria delicata Fr. Rindenkoralle. Fruit body up to 3cm high, whitish becoming flushed pink or ochraceous, branched to several ranks. Spores white, ellipsoid 4.5–6 x 2.5–3µ. Habitat on rotting wood. Season autumn. Edibility unknown. Found In Europe.
Lentaria is in the main a tropical genus and has not previously been recorded in Europe. The only previous collection of this species, L. delicata, was made by Fries in Sweden in the early nineteenth century. It now seems well established in at least one site in the South of England, on a pile of weathered sawdust and rotting wood, where it has been collected in successive years.

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