Beech Woodwart
Reddish brown fruiting bodies that looked like petrified raspberries. They were 3-5 mm in size. They had bumps on the surface - the bumps are the openings of structures called perithecia, which are embedded just below the surface. The perithecia form ascospores. The interior flesh was black.
Hypoxylon is a genus of Ascomycetes commonly found on dead wood, and usually one of the earliest species to colonise dead wood. A common European species is Hypoxylon fragiforme which is particular common on dead trunks of beech.
Based on morphological studies and gene sequence analyses, 27 species formerly assigned to Hypoxylon sect. Annulata were reassigned to a new genus called Annulohypoxylon in 2005.
Similar species: Xylariales
By Christine Young
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Uploaded Apr 25, 2018. Captured Apr 21, 2018 13:39 in 281 Main St S, Woodbury, CT 06798, USA.
