Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Beechmast Candlesnuff

Facts
Common Name: 
Beechmast Candlesnuff
Scientific Name: 
Xylaria carpophila
Stem Height (mm): 
20-50mm
Information
Description: 

A very slender and delicate fungus with a whitish fruitbody and blackish tip, found in broadleaf woodland growing on the masts of Beechm often buried under leaf litter.

Distribution: 

Common, all year round but mainly during Summer and Autumn.

Habitat: 

 On old rotting beech mast, often buried under leaf litter.

Cap: 

The fruitbody's upper stromatal surface is whitish, antler-shaped with the tips blackening on maturity.

Flesh: 

Hard and white. Taste and odour is not distinctive.

Additional Notes: 

Inedible.