🇬🇧 gray coral - 🇩🇪 Graue Koralle - 🇪🇪 Hall klavuliina - 🇷🇺 Клавулина пепельно-серая

🇬🇧 gray coral - 🇩🇪 Graue Koralle - 🇪🇪 Hall klavuliina - 🇷🇺 Клавулина пепельно-серая 7/19/25

🆔 Clavulina cinerea (Bull.) J.Schröt.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Smooth, covering the entire surface of the upright, amphigenous branches
ℹ️ Cap: No distinct cap; fruit body consists of intricately branched, upright coral structures, tips blunt or pointed, surface is smooth to slightly wrinkled, dull lilac‑grey to pale or dark grey, sometimes with brownish tones
❌ Stipe: Absent or very rudimentary; branches arise from a short base
⚪ Spore print whitish
🌳 Ecology ectomycorrhizal, found on soil under mixed woodlands—deciduous trees, summer to autumn
🍴 Occasionally consumed raw or preserved in oil
📏 Fruit body medium-sized, 2–8 cm tall, 2–6 cm wide
🧪 May turn green with FeSO₄ on branch surface, KOH reaction negative
👃 Slightly damp or mossy
👅 Mild and sweetish
🔬 Spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, thin-walled, non-amyloid, 7–10.5 × 5.5–9 µm; basidia 2-spored
🔤 Grayish‑white coral fungus with smooth, branching fruit bodies that arise from a short base