Green-tipped coral

Appearance

Fruiting body:
up to 12cm wide, up to 17cm high, but usually narrower and smaller, stem single or branched from base, fruitbody repeatedly branched, branches usually erect, somewhat slender, with long internodes in lower part, "but occasionally lax or spreading, and the
Flesh:
coriaceous [leathery] when fresh, (Marr)
Branch color:
dull buffy tan where fertile, darker where sterile, bruno-vinescent on bruising; tips either colored as branches (and then the stem base or axils greenish), or yellow-green to pale green; specimens showing greenish color at fruitbody base or in branch axi
Stem:
single and discrete or branched from the base so as to appear multiple or cespitose, often covered with felty basal mycelium up to 0.5cm, concolorous with branches, arising from basal tomentum; basal tomentum felty, with diffuse margin disappearing into substrate, or with margin ramifying as a tangle of slender, white, somewhat mealy, often webbed rhizomorphs, stem "white to cream color, or often some shade of green to pale blue-green", (Petersen)

Naming

Clavaria apiculata

Habitat

on well-rotted conifer wood or hardwood, including but not limited to Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), Abies concolor (White Fir), Pinus strobus (Eastern White Pine), and Populus trichocarpa (Black Cottonwood), or rarely on buried wood and appearing terrestrial;