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(Clavaria fumosa) Pers. :Fr.

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Clavaria fumosa grows in dense clusters and often becomes hollow when old. They have a grey-blue color often with a bent tip.

The individual fruit-bodies are up to 10 cm long and 0.5 cm wide.

Ecology/Indicatorvalue

C. fumosa grows in unfertilized grassland often together with other rare grasslandfungi.

It does not come every year, and it can take from two to five years each time it appears at the same site.

Fructification in Norway: From end of July to beginning of November, mainly in August/September.

Redlistcategory: NT - near threatened

Other Nordic countries:

Sweden	Denmark	Finland
NT - near threatened	EN – endangered	Not listed

Distributionmap

References:

Knudsen, H. & Shiryaev, AG. Kautmanova, I. 2012. Clavaria. I Knudsen,

          H. & Vesterholt, J. (red) Funga Nordica. Agaricoid, boletoid, clavarioid,

cyphelloid and gastroid genera. Nordsvamp – Copenhagen. s. 244