On an old, very dead stump in the museum grounds, these black and white clubs grow:
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| Carbon antlers, Xylaria hypoxylon. Aka Candlesnuff fungus. |
These mushrooms are slightly bioluminescent; very slightly; a vague, greenish glow you would notice only at midnight on a moonless night. Just the thing for Hallowe'en week!
The tips are white on young specimens. As they mature, they turn black. The white coating is made up of spores.
As with all mushrooms, the location is important. These need dead wood; they are often the last fungus to show up as a stump disintegrates.
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| Zooming in to see the individual stalks. |
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En un tronco cortado, ya muy muerto y deshecho, crecen estos honguitos en blanco y negro.
Son Xylaria hypoxylon, comunmente llamado el hongo de la vela, las astas de carbono o el hongo del cuerno de ciervo. Son muy levemente bioluminescentes; en una noche muy oscura, sin luna, se podrá ver una luz tenue, verde, fantasmal. ¡Muy a tiempo para el dia de los muertos!
Cuando son nuevos, la punta es blanca, cubierta de esporas. Mientras madura, se va haciendo negro.
El sitio es importante; cada especie de hongos crece en sus lugares preferidos, a veces solamente en esos sitios, como por ejemplo bajo árboles de una sola clase. Estos honguitos (hasta 8 cm.) requieren madera ya muy podrida.
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