Taste at first sweetish (meaning the sweet of sugar) becoming slightly astringent. Color at first pallid-drab becoming darker with still darker tips, the change in color between tips and branches, almost abrupt. Interior white, opaque, covered with the thin pallid drab skin. Branching at hte ground from a whitish trunk like mass which is beneath the surface, the mass and primary branches being covered with white pruinose tomentum; the upper pallid drab branches are smooth, and deeply creased down the axils; the tips are divided into many brownish drab tips. No spores deposited.