Xylaria polymorpha (Dead Man's Fingers)

Xylaria polymorpha (Dead Man's Fingers)

170528J4269

Dead Man's Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha), Toronto, Ontario - this mushroom in spring has a bluish bottom and a whitish tip of asexual spores but by summer will blacken

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