Yellow Stagshorn - Calocera viscosa
Up to 8cm high. Bright orange or orange-yellow, greasy and viscid, with antler-like branches often forked near the tips.
On roots and stumps of conifers.
Best seen in autumn
Widespread and fairly common in Britain.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Lostash
Martinshaw Wood
02 November 2013
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge NR
02 October 2005
Lostash
Martinshaw Wood
02 November 2013
David Nicholls
Ratby Burroughs
24 November 2011
AJ Cann
The Outwoods
07 September 2014
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Species profile
- Common names
- Yellow Stagshorn
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Dacrymycetales
- Family:
- Dacrymycetaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 34
- First record:
- 02/10/2005 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 13/11/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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David Nicholls
Ratby Burroughs
24 November 2011
