8 October 2007 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Dead Man's Fingers Fruiting Body An irregular club shaped growth, surface rough, and cracked, dark brown to black, to about 8 cm high Flesh White, tough Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season All year Distribution Very common Habitat On stumps and logs of deciduous trees, favouring beech Spore Print Dark brown Microscopic Features Ascospores spindle shaped, smooth (20-32) x (5-9) µm2 Edibility Inedible Notes Take care not to confuse with the more delicate X. longipes which favours Sycamore and other Acer species |