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Mushroom Monday: Common Club Coral (Clavariadelphus pistillaris)
Today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom is the Common Club Coral, Clavariadelphus pistillaris. We recently highlighted another mushroom with “coral” in the name, the coral tooth fungus, but the common club coral is quite different.
The common club coral mushroom (also called giant club mushrooms) can be smooth or have wrinkles with a weathered look. When they are young, their color is yellow to gold, but as they age, they become browner, more reddish, and duller, taking on the appearance of dead leaves. Unlike some other mushrooms, there isn’t an obvious differentiation between the stem and the rest of the mushroom. Although their size can vary, they can get to around 3 to 12 inches tall, and around 2 to 3 inches wide, being narrower at the base and wider at the top. The mushrooms are firm at first, but get softer as they get older. As the name implies, the mushrooms look like wooden clubs. They are saprophytic and can be found in Europe, North America, and other places, around beech and oak trees.
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