Clavaria fusiformis / Spindle-shaped Yellow Coral / Spindled Yellow Coral Mushroom / Spindle Coral

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Name

Scientific Name: Clavaria fusiformis
Genus: Clavaria
Species: fusiformis
Common Name: Spindle-shaped Yellow Coral; Spindled Yellow Coral Mushroom; Spindle Coral
Current Genus: Clavulinopsis
Current Species: fusiformis

Description

Scale: nat. size
Herbarium Number: 399

Collection Event Data

Collection Location: Collected in quantity in "Purgatory Swamp", near Ellis, Mass. (vicinity of Boston)
Collection Date: August 9, 1905

Notes

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Notes: Published in Nat. Geogr. Magazine, May, 1920. Whole plant reddish egg-yellow, with a fine whitish bloom, semi-translucent. Flesh yellow. Hymenium (in section) narrow, lighter than flesh. Tips of plants conspicuously sharp-pointed, darkish (Burnt Sienna). At first the points are pale. Base and young plants paler at times, almost whitish. A good common name for the plant would be "Macaroni Clavaria", because of its decided resemblance to that article of food. Plants hollow throughout, and collapsed, thus, in section: [ line drawing ]. Some specimens much contorted, as shown.
Creator: Louis C. C. Krieger
General Information: The content of these records were transcribed from the original handwritten information, and although every attempt was made to do so accurately, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the transcription or the accuracy of the original information.; Common names were obtained from the following sources:; Miller, Orson K. and David F. Farr. An index of the common fungi of North America, synonymy and common names. Vaduz [Liechtenstein]: J. Cramer, 1975. 206 p.; Lincoff, Gary. The National Audubon Society field guide to North American mushrooms. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, c1998. 926 p.; Smith, Alexander H. The mushroom hunter's field guide. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, c1980. 316 p.

Technical Details

Collection: University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi
Image Size: 1905 x 2505
File Size: 423 KB
Record: 132
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-132/wn102

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Full citation: "Clavaria fusiformis; Spindle-shaped Yellow Coral; Spindled Yellow Coral Mushroom; Spindle Coral." In the digital collection University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-132/wn102. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 06, 2025.