Cliff horn (Ramaria botrytis)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Phallomycetidae (Veselkovye)
- Order: Gomphales
- Family: Gomphaceae (Gomfovy)
- Genus: Ramaria (Ramaria)
- Species: Ramaria botrytis
Synonyms:
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Ramaria uviform
- Clavaria botrytis
- Corallium botrytis
Description
Fruit body: The height of the fruit body is from eight to fifteen centimeters and the diameter of the body is the same. The fruit body of young mushrooms is whitish, then becomes yellowish-brown and finally ocher or pinkish-red. The branches are very thick, tapering at the top. The shape of the ends is cut off. At first, the branches are reddish, then turn brownish-brown. Strongly branched branches up to 1.2 centimeters thick at the bottom are elongated into a dirty cream or whitish short stem. The fruit body of the Slingshot often resembles the head of a cauliflower. The lower branches are usually elongated and thick, not numerous. The upper branches are shorter and thicker.
Pulp: brittle, watery. The pulp is whitish-yellowish in color. Differs in pleasant delicate taste and light pleasant smell.
Spores: ocher, oblong, ellipsoidal or slightly longitudinally striated. There are one to three drops of oil at the ends of the spores.
Leg: dense, massive, three to four centimeters high, leg diameter up to six centimeters.
Spread
Grozdeva's horned is found in mixed and deciduous forests, mainly near beeches, less often under coniferous trees. It grows from July to October, while the soil temperature is kept within 12-20 degrees. The fungus is not common.
Similarity
Old horned horns bear a strong resemblance to some brown horned horns, among which there are also poisonous species, for example, Beautiful Romaria. Grozdeva's horned has two forms: ramaria botrytis fm. musaecolor and r. Rubipermanens brought from Bavaria and Italy. These two varieties have strong similarities, which is why they are very often confused. In order to establish for sure that it is the Grozdevoy Rogatik in front of you, you need to carefully study the coral ones. Also, this relatively large Horny, very often taken as the Golden Horned, but that one has yellow-orange or light orange fruit bodies, sometimes salmon-pink with sharp tips. The branches of the Horned Horny are yellow from the beginning and are uniformly colored and grows mainly under the beeches.
Edibility
the mushroom is edible, it is consumed fresh exclusively at a young age. It is one of the most delicious edible mushrooms in the Horned family.
Remarks
The word botrytis in the name of the Rogatik Grozdeva mushroom is ramaria botrytis, meaning 'grape'.
