Yellow stagshorn or Candlesnuff fungus

There's no cap. The fruit body is bushy: from a short base it forks into slender branches a few millimetres thick, with pointed, often forked tips, 3 to 6 cm tall and occasionally 10 cm. Small specimens can be simple spikes forked at the top.

The colour ranges from egg-yolk yellow to orange-yellow, with a paler, whitish-yellow base. It reddens as it dries. In wet weather the surface is greasy and sticky.

There's no cap. The fruit body, or stroma, is upright, cylindrical or flattened, often twisted, 3 to 5 cm tall, occasionally 8 cm, and 2 to 8 mm thick. It can be a simple spike, but it's usually forked at the top like antlers.

The lower part is black and finely velvety. In autumn the upper part is white or greyish, dusted with asexual spores. As the sexual spores ripen, the whole stroma turns black and tiny bumps with pores appear on the upper part.

There are no gills or pores: the spores form over almost the whole surface of the branches except the base.

The spore print is whitish to pale yellow.

There are no gills or pores. The spores ripen in tiny chambers just below the surface of the upper part of the stroma.

The spore print is black.

There's no separate stem. The short, paler base roots deep into the wood.

There's no separate stem: the black, velvety base of the stroma runs into the forked upper part.

The flesh is springy, rubbery-gelatinous and cartilaginous, bending rather than snapping. It turns hard when dry.

The flesh is thin, tough, springy and whitish. The stroma bends or snaps but is never jelly-like or slimy.

The smell and taste aren't distinctive.

The smell isn't distinctive.