ricordia

[mikey3165]

how can you tell if it a ricordia or if it is a mushroom that looks exactly like a ricordia

 

[ACBlinky]

Rics are mushrooms... if you have a shroom that looks exactly like a Ricordia, I'm guessing you've got a Ricordia

Check out the Corallimorpharian (mushroom) forum for loads of info and pictures if you're not sure what you've got

 

[fambrough]

Ricordeidae vs. Actinodiscidae and others

These families and their genera (ricordia vs actinodiscus, discosoma and rhodactis) can generally be separated by looking at a few characteristics: verrucae (the protrusions on the oral disc-charateristically bulbous and bicolored in Ricordia); the stalk (almost non-existent in ricordia); the texture (discosoma is soft, ricordia, firm).

Best thing to look at is the verrucae. There are discosoma that look like ricordia, but the surface protrusions are little tentacles, and are not like ricordias bubbled protrustions.

I agree with the above: check out the corallimorpharians forum for better help. Morphological taxonomy is dubious.

 

[mikey3165]

yea it is green and purple and almost no stalk and i got it pretty cheap actually $15, it has to heads i guess you will call them

 

[hyperfocal]

The best test is this: If it is <$10 it is a mushroom, if it is >$10 it is a ricordia