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King Alfred's cake
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English
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Etymology
From the resemblance of the round, black fungus to the burned cakes in a legend according to which King Alfred, hiding out in a countryside homestead during war, was put in charge of some baking cakes and accidentally let them burn.
Noun
- King Alfred's cake
A fungus of species Daldinia concentrica species.
en cramp balls coal fungus
References
1 Daldinia concentrica
1 Daldinia concentrica
en eponyms
en Fungi