Close-up macro of a Xylaria culture fruiting on PDA Agar. There's pale fibrous mycelium contrasting with a big black circle of felt-like, tomentose growth. A big branch, (looking something like an old willow tree tunk) with a fluffy, white base has grown out of the circle and is running diagonally. Other smaller grey-ish branches shoot out of the dark fruiting body, .

Crop of an elegant detail of the a Xylaria fruiting body on PDA. It's curled like the railing of an art-deco staircase. The texture could best be described as somewhere in between wood and skin. The fruiting body is black and white-pink, the background is white-beige and felt-like

Close up of young, strangely curled Xylaria fruiting bodies on PDA. They are spindly, probably due to a lack of oxygen. They range from white-orange to black. They remind me a bit of beige cord or young roots. The background is a flat surface of healthy, thick mycelium.