Coal Fungus, Carbon Balls, King Alfreds Cakes, or Fire Starting Fungus, (Daldinia concentricia). Growing between branching Ivy stems, on the bark of a

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Coal Fungus, Carbon Balls, King Alfreds Cakes, or Fire Starting Fungus, (Daldinia concentricia). Growing between branching Ivy stems, on the bark of a dead Ash Tree (Fraxinus excelsior), which has succumbed to Chalara, or Ash Dieback Disease (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus). Norfolk. East Anglia. UK

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