Species:
Daldinia concentrica
- Scientific name:
- Daldinia concentrica
- Arabic name:
- بيضة الفحم
- French name:
- Daldinie concentrique
- English name:
- King Alfred's Cakes, cramp balls, coal fungus
- Habitat:
- Deacying wood logs.
- Surrounding vegetation:
- Fraxinus
- Ecological niche:
- Saprobic, on dead or dying hardwood.
- Chromosome Number:
- -
- Genome size:
- -
- Cap:
- -
- Gills / pores:
- -
- - Stem:
- There is no stipe; the fruitbody, cushion-shaped, is attached to the host wood by a broad.
- Dimensions:
- -
- - Color(s):
- Fruitbody: initially brown and dense then turns black.
- Texture, other traits:
- Initially dense, becomes less dense after drying.
- Kingdom Fungi
- Phylum Ascomycota
- Class Sordariomycetes
- Order Xylariales
- Family Xylariaceae
- Genus Daldinia
Fruiting period
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