Introduction

Fungi are a group of organisms that are neither plant nor animal. Fungi obtain their nutrition from decaying organic matter. Fungi are not able to carry out photosynthesis and therefore lack chlorophyll which is present in green plants. By breaking down dead organic material fungi continue the life cycle. One such fungi, is of the Genus Daldinia.

Discussion

Daldinia is of the Phylum Ascomycota, Class
Ascomycetes, Order Xylariales, and Family Xylariaceae. The genus consists of approximately 22 species. Daldinia concentrica also known as King Alfred's cakes, cramp balls or coal fungus is one of the more common species. Its common name of King Alfred's cakes comes from an incident where the King burned some cakes and the fungus resembled these burned cakes. D. concentrica was also once thought to cure cramps if you held them in your pant legs, hence the name cramp
balls. D. concentrica, like most of the fungi belonging to the Xylariaceae family causes a......

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