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Cramp balls, Bantock Park

3 March 2017 by David

Cramp balls, Bantock Park

King Alfred’s cakes, coal fungus, cramp balls, or, to get formal, Daldinia concentrica. All different names for this distinctive fungus, which grows on dead or decaying wood.

These were just a selection from the crop on a felled trunk on the edge of the pitch and putt course at Bantock Park.

Cramp balls, Bantock Park

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