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A bracket fungus. The visible stage should be out in the spring and summer, but this specimen had appeared before the end of January.

This oak tree was in the middle of a frosty field near Lapley. Pictured on a misty day in mid-January.

These bright mushrooms grow from towards the base of trees.

The pictured specimens were growing on different stumps along the railway walk in the Smestow Valley nature reserve and its continuation into south Staffordshire.

This lichen was growing on the sawn-off top of the trunk.

Moss was covering this and several other bracket fungi on the stump.

This ear fungus was growing on a tree stump near the pools by Donington church. Other growth on the same stump tomorrow and Wednesday.