Stalactites (calicte deposits) - their opposite numbers on the floor are stalagmites.
They can grow in three basic forms:
plain Stalactites - tapering, shaped like icicles,
Curtains (I believe aka 'Draperies' in USA), shaped a bit like curtains (!) and
Helictites - oddly-distorted things like bits of spaghetti, whose origins are still conjectural.
A cave roof can also exhibit particular erosion-forms such as box-work, a sort of tracery caused when the passage's formative stream filled it to the roof in its early development.
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