03/Oct/2026, 3:54 PM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, broadleaf deciduous Oak and Maple grove, on decayed leaf litter organic remains
59°26'21.9"N 24°47'47.7"E
🌡️ 14°C 🌥️ Broken clouds 💨 Wind 190° S->N, 9 km/h
Original Instagram postRamariopsis kunzei
Ivory Coral
- Scientific identification
- Ramariopsis kunzei (Fr.) Corner
- Family
- Clavariaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Ramariopsis
Names across languages
- English: Ivory Coral
- German: Weiße Wiesenkoralle
- Finnish: Nukkajalkahaarakas
- Estonian: Valge ramariopsis
- Russian: Рамариопсис Кунце
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-10-03.
Hymenium
Smooth, covering most of the outer branch surfaces; white to cream, becoming pale yellowish or ochre with age
Fruit body
Coral-like, repeatedly and irregularly branched from a common base; branches slender, crowded to somewhat spreading; tips forked, pointed to blunt
Hymenium Attachment
Fertile surface continuous over the branches
Stipe
Short, rudimentary basal trunk, white to cream, often dividing rapidly into numerous branches
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Presumed saprobic on soil among moss and grass, especially unimproved grasslands, pastures, dunes, banks and woodland clearings; occasionally in litter or on very decayed wood; solitary to clustered; summer to autumn
Edibility
Edibility uncertain; insubstantial and of little culinary value
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium; ~3–10 cm tall
Flesh
White to cream, thin, fragile to somewhat pliant, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Odour
Faint, indistinct
Taste
Mild, indistinct
Microscopy
Spores subglobose to ellipsoid, finely echinulate to verrucose, hyaline, ~3.5–5.5 × 3–4.5 µm, slightly dextrinoid; basidia 2–4-spored; cystidia absent; hyphae with clamp connections
Overview
White coral with densely branched forked tips and finely spiny spores
1950). Monograph of Clavaria and Allied Genera, (Annals of Botany Memoirs No. 1): 640.
Field encounters
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