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Birch polypore on path margin, by Old Nursery Pond

Birch polypore on path margin, by Old Nursery Pond

Growing from one of the silver birch trunks which mark the edge of the paths in Old Nursery Wood, a bracket fungus, a birch polypore by the side of the shortest path between Old Nursery Pond and Willow Pond.

Birch polypore on path margin, by Old Nursery Pond

One of the other names for this fungus is the razor strop fungus. At one time, they were used to sharpen the edge of old-fashioned cut-throat razors.