Fungi of beechwood: The Lumpy Bracket (Trametes gibbose) growing on live beech tree (Fagus sylvatica). It was quite high up and this is the best top view I could manage. I noticed it during my last visit to the woods couple weeks before but didn’t have time to stop and get a closer look. Lansdown, Bath, BANES, England, U.K.

I try to give ID where possible but often it is not an easy task in the world of fungi without special examination, and I am not a mycologist. So, if you feel that ID is incorrect, please do correct.

26 december 2019

Taken on our few days in South Yorkshire

I like the colours, textures and variety of tree brackets

Even on rainy days there are still interesting objects to photograph.

Can anyone identify this bracket fungus? It's on a dead spruce stump.

Yet another visit to the Crossrail bridge, Canary Wharf. It's not easy finding a different angle on this well-photographed location.

College Park, MD

Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus. Architects McLaughlin & Harvey.

All rights reserved - © Judith A. Taylor

More architectural fragments on my web site : Fine Art Mono Photography

Darmstadt - Vorgarten

6 focus points each at 3 bracketed exposures, stack in Photoshop.

Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet or columbine) is a genus of about 60-70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers. The genus name Aquilegia is derived from the Latin word for eagle (aquila), because the shape of the flower petals, which are said to resemble an eagle's claw. The common name "columbine" comes from the Latin for "dove", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. The Colorado Blue Columbine (A. caerulea) is the official state flower of Colorado. Large numbers of hybrids are available for the garden, since the European A. vulgaris was hybridized with other European and North American varieties. Aquilegia species are very interfertile, and will self-sow. Some varieties are short-lived so are better treated as biennials. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquilegia

Bitter Bracket - Postia stiptica Lower (fertile) surface with tubes and pores; watery droplets are exuded mainly from margin region and from the pores. Very bitter taste. It may turn ochre-brown when old. Usually on felled trunks and large fallen branches of conifers; very occasionally on the timber of hardwood trees.

in the forest of Oftersheim

Wat Tyler Country Park

Snowy Egret meets itself on the surface of Horsepen Bayou as it prepares for another strike on the hapless baitfish.

Taken at Victoria Park, which is located in the town of Truro, in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Seen at Eves Valley Tasman NZ

Paris (75), Île-de-France, France.

B&P RISI heads North through the Mt. Jewett control point in Mt. Jewett, PA.

Was glad to finally be able to photograph these signals in clouds, as under normal operating times, this shot would be completely backlit,

Bracket fungus on dead Ash

On a log on the trial to Pam's Grotto

Growing on a fallen tree

Thank you to everyone who visits, faves, and comments.

-2, 0, +2 EV.

Use right-arrow to see the combination (HDR), the left-arrow to return.

Blushing Bracket (Daedaleopsis confragosa)

29 August 2018, Cuttle Pool Nature Reserve, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, Temple Balsall

www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/cuttle-pool

Sous l'œil attentif,

Fleurs révèlent leurs secrets,

Beauté infinie.

Under attentive gaze,

Flowers unveil their secrets,

Infinite beauty.

View from underneath showing the pores. Not sure of the ID of this species? See photo (1) also. Spotted at the JFK Arboretum.

Part of a bracket fungus (I think) growing out, in the vicinity of a large tree that we had to have taken down a few years ago. Apparently there's still tree material down there in the soil. This was about as large as a plate. I like the colors.

This is probably Ganoderma.

Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?

on a tree in Abbey Park, Pershore

A un autre moment de l'année

NS 127 is southbound on Nº2 Track by Spring at Atlanta, Georgia with CBFX SD60M 6023 followed by a NS C44-9W and LTEX SD60M in October 2018.

As seen Nov. 1st.

Relocated this Nov. 13 and its striking white edge was dark

The wood it is on is only 3.5 - 4" in diameter.

The birch polypore only grows on Birch trees. This leathery bracket fungus has a rounded, coffee-coloured cap. This particular specimen was approximately 30cm across

Growing on the side of a fallen and decaying log, this Smokey Bracket Fungus forms an abstract covering across the bark.