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earth tongue: Media

fungus genus

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(Top) Xylaria hypoxlon; (bottom) earth tongue (Geoglossum fallax)
(Top) H.R. Allen—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., (bottom) Donald Van Buskirk
Earth tongue
Black earth tongue fungi (Geoglossum fallax) have club-shaped fruiting bodies...
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