Crowned Clavaria or Crown-Tipped Coral Fungus [Artomyces pyxidatus] found near the Blue Ridge Parkway, milepost 437, along the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, on 25 July 2013. Reader’s Digest North American Wildlife, page 549, states it grows “in clumps on logs and stumps of broad-leaved trees” and lists it under the older scientific name of Clavicorona pyxidatus.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artomyces_pyxidatus
Crowned Clavaria on Mountains-to-Sea Trail- 25 July 2013
Crowned Clavaria (with finger) – 25 July 2013
