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Yellow Club

Clavulinopsis helvola

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 532, February 393, March 615, April 968, May 1,396, June 1,522, July 1,628, August 1,400, September 1,028, October 767, November 419, December 328.
United States11,040
Alaska10,997
United Kingdom603
England531
Germany57
Scotland36
Wales35
Schleswig-Holstein21
Nordrhein-Westfalen13
Canada11

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Ecological

  • DecomposerBreaks down dead organic matter, recycling nutrientsFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata
  • Coral fungus formDescends from a fungal lineage whose members are typically coral fungi.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
OrderCommon Gilled Mushrooms and Allies · Agaricales
Familyantler and spindle fungi · Clavariaceae
GenusSpindles · Clavulinopsis

Sources

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