Crested Coral Fungus - Clavulina coralloides

Habitat: It was growing next to rotting wood in a mixed (mostly pine) forest, along the edge of a swamp.

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morpheme

Lion

Clavulina coralloides - it's pretty distinctive with the tips being sort of fringy - feathery. It's one of the few corals I am readily willing to positively ID with a lot of certainty. It looks different enough to not confuse it with Ramarias, that have a lot of look alikes. Artomyces actually has little cups on the tips - totally unique for corals. The gray that's starting at the bottom is indeed another fungus - Helminthosphaeria clavariarum. Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
  Lion
  
  Awesome, thanks so much! Posted 4 years ago

The White coral fungus

"Clavulina cristata", commonly known as the white coral fungus or the crested coral fungus, is a white- or light-colored edible coral mushroom present in temperate areas of the Americas and Europe. It is the type species of the genus "Clavulina".

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Similar species: Cantharellales

Species identified by Christine Young