Bright Orange Stagshorn Fungus (Calocera viscosa) Growing on a Rotting Pine Stump With Moss. Great Torrington, Devon, England.

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Calocera viscosa is a jelly fungus is commonly known as Stagshorn or Jelly Antler Fungus. It belongs to the order of Dacrymycetales fungi which have a distinctive ‘tuning fork basidia’. They are common in Britain and Europe, growing up to 10cm tall. They are saprotrophic – decomposing dead plant material - and here it was found on the dead pine tree stumps

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Location: Great Torrington, Devon, England. Europe
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