A fungus - Peroneutypa scoparia
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A fungus - Peroneutypa scoparia
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 5 Feb 2010
Only a short distance east from the point from which the photograph Image was taken, a piece of fallen wood bore the unusual fungus shown here. The photograph shows one end of the piece of wood, which was 6cm thick, and about 30cm long; it is just one remaining fragment of a much larger piece, on which I first photographed the fungus, early in 2007: Image The fungus is now darkened with age, but it was originally a fairly dark brown, rather than black. Each of the small individual structures consists of several finger-like projections extending from an irregular but more or less rounded base.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.932031
Longitude
-4.491181