Downy Birch (Betula pubescens). Dying and dead trees with Bracket or Shelf fungus (Piptoporus betulinus), fruiting bodies trunk.

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Downy Birch (Betula pubescens). Dying and dead trees with Bracket or Shelf fungus (Piptoporus betulinus), fruiting bodies on the trunks. Calthorpe Broad NNR, SSSI. Norfolk.

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