Golden yellow coral
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Golden yellow coral ( Ramaria aurea ) |
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The golden yellow coral ( Ramaria aurea ) is a species of mushroom from the pig's ear relatives . Along with other similarly shaped mushrooms, it is also known under the ambiguous name " goatee ".
features
The fruit body becomes 7 to 12 cm high and 5 to 11 cm wide. It divides from a thick, whitish stalk into numerous branches that are forked or clipped at the end. They are bright salmon-orange or salmon-colored; the tips are a rich corn yellow, but later colored like the branches. The stalk becomes two to four centimeters high and more or less tapers towards the base. It is tinted white at the bottom and lemon yellow at the top. The meat is dirty white and marbled and has a watery consistency and a mild, later bitter taste with a grassy-woody odor.
Ecology and phenology
The fungus is found in deciduous and coniferous forests. It can be found mainly in higher altitudes, otherwise rare. Its fruiting bodies like to appear in rows from July.
distribution
The golden yellow coral is found in the Holarctic in Asia in Turkey and Japan and in North America in the United States. It is also widespread in Europe from Italy to Sweden and Finland and from France and Great Britain to the Czech Republic.
meaning
Food value
The young fruiting bodies are edible, but can easily be confused with those of the poisonous bellyache and tri-colored coral .
Taxonomy
The species used to be more variable than it is today. Formerly the species now called sulfur yellow coral ( Ramaria flava ) and yellowish coral ( R. flavescens ) as well as possibly the blood red spotted coral ( R. sanguinea ) and other species of the genus Ramaria were combined with the golden yellow coral. For this reason, information on distribution may be incomplete.
swell
- German Josef Krieglsteiner (Eds.), Andreas Gminder , Wulfard Winterhoff: Die Großpilze Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Stand mushrooms: inguinal, club, coral and stubble mushrooms, belly mushrooms, boletus and deaf mushrooms. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3531-0 .
