Meanings
- not comparablePertaining tochanging to a wine-red colour.
...all parts easily weakly vinescent around soil particles.
1985 November 28, Ronald H. Petersen, “Notes on Clavarioid Fungi. XX. New Taxa and Distributional Records in Clavulina and Ramaria”, in Mycologia, volume 77, number 6 (PDF), Taylor & Francis, Ltd., →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 16 Jul 2018, pages 903–9193 more examples
7 July 1965, in humus in the forest, Gallego, 800 m altitude; to 10 cm high, fuscous cinnamon, clear cinnamon-ochraceous upwards to the cinnamon-orange or orange-ochraceous tips, tissue slowly vinescent on bruising; [...]
1966, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of LondonVinescent or browning when bruised; fructifications up to 10 cm. high, [...]
1967, Annals of the Carnegie Museum, page 137In one (Watling 14834) the colours were merely reported as such, while in the other (Walling 14806), the lavender colour was linked to handling or bruising of the specimen. From notes accompanying TENN 41224, this is a vinescent response, not a naturally occurring pigmentation.
1990, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, page 146
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