The spores are elliptical, yellowish-brown, 11–13×5µ.
It is usually given as found under pine trees, but I find it about Chillicothe in mixed woods, in which there are no pine trees at all. It is found after frequent rains, from August to October. As an edible, it is fairly good.
Clavaria formosa. Pers.
Beautiful Clavaria. Edible.
Figure 392.—Clavaria formosa. Three-fourths its natural size.
Formosa is from formosus, meaning finely formed.
This plant is two to six inches high, trunk rather thick, often over an inch in thickness; whitish, or yellowish, elastic, the branches numerous, crowded, elongated, divided at the ends into yellow branchlets, which are thin, straight, obtuse or toothed.
The spores are elongated-oval, rough, buff-colored, 16×8µ.