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Dead ash trees are the best places to look for the, shiny fruiting bodies of the fungus Daldinia concentrica, King Alfred's Cakes or cramp balls. While most toadstools shed spores by simply dropping them into the air this woody fungus fires them violently out. Bring one into the warm and place it under a table lamp, watch with a magnifying glass and you can easily spot small powdery eruptions all over the surface. The spores are fire out by a build up of pressure from flask shaped asci embedded in the surface of the fungus.
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