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Dead Man's Fingers Aliveby ~lilgumba

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Xylaria polymorpha (Dead Man's Fingers)

This is a picture of the fungus in it's alive state. Last time I took the pictures they were like the black pieces seen. (I thought it might have been poo.)
Category: Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Fungi

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`priteeboy Jun 24, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I've never seen a fungus like that before :O_o: I thought it was a bunch of wild mice burrowing into the ground at first :XD: there's also a small but interesting type of succulent plant that looks a lot like these :D
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~lilgumba Jun 24, 2011
I didn't know it was a fungus either but it was too weird not to be. I have a picture in the gallery up here when I took them last fall. They looked like poop at first but it was only localized to the dead tree stump. I ended up contacting someone at the Chicago Field Museum and he told me that it indeed was a fungus. It was the most he'd ever seen in one spot though. This was the link he had sent me for more information.

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`priteeboy Jun 24, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Interesting read, I love how they also referred to its dead form as "something you would mistake for your cat leaving behind" :lmao:

The coral-like varieties are also very pretty :D
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