There are a few other options of small yellow club/coral/jelly fungi. This one was chosen due to not growing so densely, being so short, and only occasionally forking.

Damp dead wood of broadleaved trees, especially beech and oak

Inedible — too small and insignificant

• ▸ Tiny, bright yellow, awl- to club-shaped fruit bodies only a few mm tall
• ▸ Gelatinous to waxy texture, glossy and slightly sticky when moist
• ▸ Unbranched or sparingly branched tips
• ▸ Grows in dense clusters on damp decaying wood

The commonest of the yellow stagshorn fungi; the tiny gelatinous clubs are easily overlooked on damp logs.