Dead Man's Fingers

Fruiting Body: 3-10 cm tall; up to 2.5 cm across; tough; shaped more or less like a club or a finger but occasionally flattened; usually with a rounded tip; at first coated with a pale to bluish or purplish dust of conidia (asexual spores), except at the whitish tip--but soon blackish with a pale tip and eventually black overall; surface becoming minutely pimpled and wrinkled with maturity.
Flesh: Whitish; very tough.