It's Not What You Think. (Xylaria polymorpha)
Every autumn, without any human help, clusters of blackened fingers push up from dead stumps in deciduous woodlands across the Northern Hemisphere. That's just Xylaria polymorpha, also known as Dead Man's Fingers, doing what it does. iNaturalist Link: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5869... Xylaria Metabolites Study: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6d67... _____ This video is Creative Commons licensed as Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA Stock media is provided by Creative Commons, Flickr, iNaturalist, Shutterstock, and Pixabay.
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