The King Alfred Cake Pancake Experiment

Walking through local woodland today I saw several dead ash tree branches with black blobs on them. I though they looked like animal poo but my travelling companion pointed out that they were actually fungi. They have several names including coal fungus or cramp balls or King Alfred's cakes. They are hard, semi-spherical black lumps and are the fruiting bodies of a fungus, which decays the dead wood of the ash tree.
I had taken the 40mm prime pancake lens on the camera following a chiding by DD for not using it. I shot this from a low point so the focus is not on the money, but hey ... it's an experiment!