Is it a pizza? Was it a UFO?
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Is it a pizza? Was it a UFO?
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 17 Jan 2012
No, it's a fungus. Found amongst leaf litter by the River Crane, a little way below Hospital Bridge. At first sight I mistook this object for discarded food, but on looking more closely realised that it was a huge fungus, apparently growing from the roots of a horse-chestnut tree. My friend ceridwen, who knows her onions, suggests the genera Fomes or Ganoderma. At a guess, this object was about 60cm (2 feet) across - my boot is size 42 (aka 8).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.441587
Longitude
-0.363005