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Coral fungi show different types of branching. Some branch in much the same way as trees, with a main trunk dividing smoothly into two or more, those later dividing smoothly again and so on. A more dramatic type of branching is what’s called pyxidate branching. Here, one level finishes in a disk-like to cup-like area and the branches for the next level start at the margins of the disk or cup. The diagram shows this in stylized form and the photo shows a close-up view of a species of Clavicorona  where you can see some very young branches developing around the rim of one of these disk-like areas.