No serious poisonings from coral fungi have been reported.

Cautions: A few coral fungi have a laxative effect, and some people seem to be particularly sensitive.

Coral fungi can be similar in appearance to jelly fungi.

Tremellodendropsis is a genus of coral fungi in the family Tremellodendropsidaceae.

The genus Ramaria comprises approximately 200 species of coral fungi.

Avoid coral fungi that taste bitter, bruise brown when handled or have gelatinous bases.

They are colloquially called club fungi and coral fungi.

Several other coral fungi have overall appearances similar to Clavulina cristata, making identification confusing.

Most coral fungi grow on the ground, but some grow on logs and stumps.

Some coral fungi are saprotrophic on decaying wood, while others are commensal or even parasitic.

In general, coral fungi often have extensive taxonomic histories, as mycologists have not agreed on the best way to classify them.

Coral fungi (edible)

Coral fungi are mushrooms that are usually shaped like coral from the ocean but can also be shaped like forks, worms or clubs.

"Mushroom" has been used for polypores, puffballs, jelly fungi, coral fungi, bracket fungi, stinkhorns, and cup fungi.

Ramariopsis kunzei is an edible species of coral fungi in the Clavariaceae family, and the type species of the genus Ramariopsis.

The tips of the branches are blunt, not crested as in some other species of coral fungi, like Clavulina cristata; branches are between 1 and 5 millimeters thick.

Researchers say the new work explains why some lichens look so much like more recognizable fungi, sprouting up very typical mushroomlike structures or the tiny baseball bat-shaped clubs of the coral fungi.

The family was described in 1970 by British mycologist E.J.H. Corner to accommodate species of club and coral fungi that were similar to species in the Clavariaceae, but whose context hyphae were uninflated.

Collectively, they are commonly known as coral fungi due to their resemblance to aquatic coral, although other vernacular names including antler fungi, finger fungi, worm mold, and spaghetti mushroom are sometimes used for similar reasons.

Variations in branching and color can often be used to distinguish C. zollingeri from similarly colored coral fungi such as Alloclavaria purpurea and Clavulina amythestina, although microscopy is required to reliably identify the latter species.

There are several species of coral fungi that are superficially similar in appearance to R. botrytis, and although comparison of habitat or characteristics like color or branching morphology is often sufficient for identification, sometimes microscopy is required to definitively distinguish between them.

Ramariopsis is a genus of fungi in the Clavariaceae family.

Clavaria rosea is a species of coral fungus in the family Clavariaceae.

The Clavariaceae are a family of fungi in the Agaricales order of mushrooms.

Clavulinopsis umbrinella, commonly known as the beige coral, is a coral mushroom in the family Clavariaceae.

As originally conceived, the Aphyllophorales contained the families Clavariaceae, Cyphellaceae, Fistulinaceae, Hydnaceae, Meruliaceae, Polyporaceae, Polystictaceae, and Thelephoraceae.

A large-scale molecular analysis of the phylogenetic distributions and limits of clavarioid fungi in the family Clavariaceae was published by Bryn Dentiger and David McLaughlin in 2006.

It focussed on Agaricaceae, Clavariaceae and Discomycetes, but Holmskiold was dissatisfied with the book and chose not to publish it at this stage, probably because he got distracted by other pursuits.

The family was described in 1970 by British mycologist E.J.H. Corner to accommodate species of club and coral fungi that were similar to species in the Clavariaceae, but whose context hyphae were uninflated.

The Clavariaceae, Physalacriaceae, Pterulaceae, and Typhulaceae, previously included within the order, are now placed within the Agaricales; the Clavariadelphaceae are now in the Gomphales; the Sparassidaceae in the Polyporales.

As such, the order included the ten families Brachybasidiaceae, Corticiaceae, Clavariaceae, Cyphellaceae, Dictyolaceae, Fistulinaceae, Polyporaceae, Radulaceae, Tulasnellaceae, and Vuilleminiaceae, representing a mix of poroid, corticioid, cyphelloid, and clavarioid fungi.

By 1995, the order had been amended (based on micromorphological research) to include not only the Cantharellaceae, but also the Aphelariaceae, Clavariaceae, Clavariadelphaceae, Clavulinaceae, Craterellaceae, Hydnaceae, Physalacriaceae, Pterulaceae, Scutigeraceae, Sparassidaceae, and Typhulaceae.