Hypoxylon fragiforme    (Scop.:Fr.) Kicks. 

common name(s) : Beech Woodwart 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Sordariomycetes/Xylariomycetidae/Xylariales/Xylariaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pyrenomycetideae  

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with  Hypoxylon fragiforme toxicity of Hypoxylon fragiforme genus Hypoxylon  

The fruiting body is spherical, with a warty surface, brick-red to cinnamon brown, without stem.

The fertile surface is.

It grows on wood, on fallen branches of broad-leaved trees, on beech.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 0.7 cm (between 0.1 and 1 cm)

Distinctive features : globular brick-red then brown fruiting body, warty; tough blackish flesh; il large troops on dead beech wood

Hypoxylon fragiforme is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hypoxylon fragiforme in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hypoxylon fragiforme in the forest of Rambouillet



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