Pale Stagshorn - Calocera pallidospathulata
Yellow fungus with gelatinous fruit bodies typically 3 to 10 mm, which wrinkle lengthways and narrow downwards to a stem, termed spatulate. As they develop they change from yellow to white, hence the common name.
On dead or rotting branches, stumps and twigs of broadleaf and coniferous wood.
Usually seen from early autumn to early winter.
They grow densely crowded.
Widely distributed and quite common in Britain. First recorded in Yorkshire in the 1980s it has spread very rapidly throughout the UK.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Melinda Bell
Whitwick,Holly Hayes Wood
07 July 2021
small growths of a few mm length
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 November 2005
David Nicholls
Cademan Wood
04 November 2012
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 November 2011
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 November 2011
David Nicholls
Rutland Water
31 December 2011
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
23 June 2012
David Nicholls
Cloud Wood
07 July 2012
Melinda Bell
Whitwick,Holly Hayes Wood
07 July 2021
jelly-like and a bit damp
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Species profile
- Common names
- Pale Stagshorn
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Dacrymycetales
- Family:
- Dacrymycetaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 13
- First record:
- 05/11/2005 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 15/10/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
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