The Club-like Tuning Fork is a decomposer that grows on wood. This specimen was found fruiting in the cracks of a chared Black Oak trunk. It is yellow to orange-colored and is tough and gelatinous (the same features are shared with many other Dacrymycetes). It can be found fruiting on Oaks and other broadleaf woods in the spring and fall.

Calocera furcata is similar, but fruits on conifer wood.

August 3rd, 2023 Field Notes

• Growing in large numbers from lateral cracks on a charred Black Oak trunk in open mixed oak woodland.
• Fruiting bodies are orange, gelatinous but fairly tough, spire-like with a fork near the tip.
• Smell: not distinctive
• Taste: not distinctive