Dead Moll's Fingers - Xylaria longipes
The fruitbody is club shaped or cylindrical, smooth or slightly downy, black and warty, narrowing slightly in to brownish-black and flexible stem. When immature the growths are soft and pale grey with pinkish tips.
Dead Man's Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha). Sometimes confused with Earth-tongues (Geoglossum) but these grow in grasslands, not on dead wood
On fallen branches of broad-leaved trees, usually Sycamore
Frequent throughout the year but mainly in summer and autumn.
Quite frequent and widespread in Britain.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge NR
02 October 2005
Melinda Bell
Calke,Southwood
14 October 2022
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,White Horse Wood
30 September 2023
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,White Horse Wood
01 October 2022
steven lewis
welby
22 November 2015
AJ Cann
Billesdon Village Pool
15 November 2023
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Species profile
- Common names
- Dead Moll's Fingers
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Xylariales
- Family:
- Xylariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 20
- First record:
- 02/10/2005 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 24/10/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
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