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Humongous fungus

05 Friday Aug 2022

Posted by sconzani in fungi

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bracket fungi, British fungi, Dryad's saddle, fungus, Polyporus squamosus, summer fungus

During Monday’s local meander I was hugely surprised to spot this humongous fungus, though I shouldn’t have been. Dryad’s saddle (Polyporus squamosus) is actually one of the first bracket fungi to appear each year, often sprouting its saddle-shaped ledges during the summer months when you’d least expect fungi to appear. This one was in a shady woodland, in an area less affected by the scorching sun that’s parched much of the land around here, so it was certainly a much more fungi-friendly location.

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