22/Sep/2026 (🌅🌇), 5:41 PM
Laasu tee, Raudoja, Harju, Eesti
Mixed (conifer dominant) forest, deep in feather moss on organic remains
59°23'13.1"N 25°23'29.6"E
🌡️ 14°C ⛅ Passing clouds 💨 Wind 30° NNE->SSW, 17 km/h
Original Instagram postClavulina coralloides
Crested Coral
- Scientific identification
- Clavulina coralloides (L.) J. Schröt.
- Family
- Hydnaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Clavulina
Names across languages
- English: Crested Coral
- German: Kammförmiger Keulenpilz
- Finnish: Korallihaarakas
- Estonian: Harjakas klavuliina
- Russian: Клавулина коралловидная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-22.
Hymenium
Smooth, covering most of the outer branch surface; white to cream
Fruit body
Coral-like, repeatedly branched; white to cream, sometimes faintly grey, buff or pinkish; branch tips characteristically flattened and divided into several sharp, comb-like or crown-like points
Hymenium Attachment
Fertile surface continuous over the branches
Stipe
Short basal trunk, whitish to greyish, sometimes indistinct; branches often fused near base
Spore print
Spore print white to pale yellowish
Ecology
Mycorrhizal with hardwoods and conifers; on soil among litter and humus, occasionally appearing from strongly decayed wood; solitary, scattered or gregariously; summer to late autumn
Edibility
Edible but poor culinary value; thin, brittle and insubstantial
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium; ~2–8 cm tall and up to ~3–8 cm wide
Flesh
Whitish, brittle to slightly tough, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Slightly bitter
Microscopy
Spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, ~7–11 × 6–10 µm; basidia predominantly 2-spored; cystidia absent; clamp connections present
Overview
White coral with distinctive flattened comb-like branch tips
1888). In Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schlesien (Breslau) 3.1(25–32): 443 (’1889′).
Field encounters
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