Fungal Landscapes

The form of fungi and the wood on which they often grow can be most spectacular in a photograph. On a visit to the Oxford University Natural History Museum, a display of imported west African tree stumps adorn the yard in an exhibition called ‘the ghost forest.’ Some of the fungi is splitgill fungi, (schzophyllum commune). It is an uncommon fungi in the UK , but as it is a cosmopolitan species, it may actually be the African version, although I have found it in Sumatra and India.  The UK species seems to look slightly different and I have only found it once in Dorset

Below is the species from Sumatra. There are small regional differences.

The bottom picture is a close up of the Oxford specimen

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