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Dead Man's Fingers
Dead man's fingers forms black, club-shaped or finger-like stromata, often in clusters, at the bases of rotting hardwood stumps and on buried wood. Young stromata are pale with a white tip and a powdery coating of conidia in spring; mature ones are black with a tough white interior. It is a saprobe that causes a soft rot.
Inedible: tough and woody.
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