Guy Edwardes / Candle-snuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon), New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England, UK. November.

Adrian Davies / Dead moll's fingers fungus (Xylaria longipes) growing amongst moss. Sussex, England, UK. October.

Robin Chittenden / Dead man's finger fungus (Xylaria polymorpha), Sri Lanka.

Adrian Davies / Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) Sussex, England, UK.

Robert Thompson / Candle snuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) West of Carrigart, County Donegal, Northern Ireland, October.

Andy Sands / Dead man's fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) strange fungi sticking up from rotten log, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, October

Paul Hobson / Candle snuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) Yorkshire, UK, October.

Bernard Castelein / Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) Peerdsbos, Brasschaat, Belgium, November.

Bernard Castelein / Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) Peerdsbos, Brasschaat, Belgium, November.

Bernard Castelein / Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) Peerdsbos, Brasschaat, Belgium, October.

Adrian Davies / Candlesnuff Fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) growing through beech leaf on tree trunk, with white spores visible, Sussex, England, November.

Robert Thompson / Dead man's fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) growing on fallen oak, Lamb Island, Lough Lean lower, Killarney, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, November