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Purple Fairy Club This may just be the strangest "mushroom" I've come across yet. At first I thought it was a wild onion or the shoots of some sort of bulb, with its hollow stem like structure, but indeed it is a fungus. While not incredibly rare, I only came across it once and only one clump. It was quite close to the ocean, maybe a 1/4 mile or so to the beach.  Alloclavaria purpurea,Geotagged,Purple coral,United States Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Purple Fairy Club

This may just be the strangest "mushroom" I've come across yet. At first I thought it was a wild onion or the shoots of some sort of bulb, with its hollow stem like structure, but indeed it is a fungus. While not incredibly rare, I only came across it once and only one clump. It was quite close to the ocean, maybe a 1/4 mile or so to the beach.

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''Alloclavaria purpurea'' is a coral fungus commonly known as the purple coral, or the purple fairy club. Formerly known as ''Clavaria purpurea'', it has been moved to its own genus as a result of phylogenetic analysis.

Similar species: Hymenochaetales
Species identified by morpheme
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Uploaded Nov 12, 2014. Captured Nov 11, 2014 13:11 in Lighthouse Lane, Westport, WA 98595, USA.
  • X-E1
  • f/8.0
  • 1/60s
  • ISO400
  • 35.8mm