Ramaria botrytis
Ramaria botrytis is an edible species of coral fungus in the family Gomphaceae. Its robust fruit body can grow up to 15 cm in diameter and 20 cm tall. Fruit bodies are edible, and young specimens have a mild, fruity taste. The fungus contains several chemical compounds with in vitro biological activity.
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Ramaria botrytis is an edible species of coral fungus in the family Gomphaceae. Its robust fruit body can grow up to 15 cm in diameter and 20 cm tall. Fruit bodies are edible, and young specimens have a mild, fruity taste. The fungus contains several chemical compounds with in vitro biological activity, and fruit bodies have antimicrobial activity against several species and strains of drug-resistant bacteria that cause disease in humans. The type species of the genus Ramaria, R. botrytis was first described scientifically in 1797 by mycologist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. A widely distributed species, it is found in North America, North Africa, central and eastern Europe, Australia, and Asia. It is mycorrhizal with broadleaf trees, and fruits on the ground in wooded areas. The stem is between 1.5 and 6cm thick and between 5 and 6 cm in diameter. The branches are initially whitish but age to buff or tan, with tips that are pink to reddish. The flesh is thick and white. The spores, yellowish in deposit, are ellipsoid, feature longitudinal striations, and measure about 13.
8 by 4. 7 micrometers. Phylogenetic analysis of nuclear large ribosomal DNA suggests that R rubrievens is closely related to R. permanens and that these species form a clade that is sister to the false truffle genus Gautieria, most derived from the most studied group within the taxon Ramaria. The species is commonly known as the ‘cauliflower coral’ or ‘pink-tipped coral mushroom’. It was first named as ClavariaBotrytis in 17 97 by Christian HendrikPersoon. In the Cofre de Perote region of Veracruz, Mexico, the species is known by the local names escobea, meaning ‘little broom’, or pechuga, meaning breast meat of chicken. Ramaria is a polyphyletic assemblage of species with clavarioid fruit bodies. In 1950, E. H. Corner published George F. Atkinson’s 1908clavaria holorubella as R. ‘botryti’ var. alba, which is no longer recognized as an independent taxon. In 1973, Currie Marr and Daniel Stuntz described the variety R.’a aurantiiramosa in their 1973 monograph of western Washington Ramaria; Edwin Schild and G. Ricci described variety compactospora in 1998.
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