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Candlesnuff Fungus - Xylaria hypoxylon
This white or greyish fungus is usually between 2 and 5 cm high, and soon becomes flattened and antler like in appearance, the upper branches powdered white most of the time. It goes on fruiting on stumps and fallen branches through late autumn and winter with white spores, then in spring it loses the white tips and sends out a different form of black spore for a few weeks.
On dead wood
All year round
Common and widespread in Britain
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Candlesnuff Fungus
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Xylariales
- Family:
- Xylariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 326
- First record:
- 23/10/2004 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 21/01/2024 (Brown, Jennifer)
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