Yellow Stagshorn - Calocera viscosa

Description

A large stagshorn, bright yellow or orange-yellow with antler-like branches often forked near the tips arising from a basal 'trunk'.  The texture is gelatinous and rubbery. 

Similar Species

Other Calocera are smaller and usually unbranched or forked.   There are several yellow clubs and corals in the Clavariaceae, but these are on soils usually in grasslands, and have brittle, not rubbery, fruitbodies; however, Clavulinopsis laeticolor occurs in woodland and has yellow unbranched clubs.. 

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photograph in habitat; note substrate and associated tree species.

Habitat

On roots and stumps of conifers.

When to see it

Best seen in autumn

VC55 Status

Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland.

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Species profile

Common names
Yellow Stagshorn
Species group:
fungus
Kingdom:
Fungi
Order:
Dacrymycetales
Family:
Dacrymycetaceae
Records on NatureSpot:
35
First record:
27/08/2013 (Nightingale, Kate)
Last record:
08/12/2025 (Bell, Melinda)

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