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Two bracket fungi species on a tree, Stratford

Two bracket fungi species on a tree, Stratford

There’s one particular tree by the footpath through what is now the Riverside Project nature reserve in Stratford on Avon which has different bracket fungi growing on it every time we visit.

This time the brackets were tiny, but, as a bonus, there were two different species.

Those which did not have a crinkled rim were one of the mazegill species. This time, even the largest was no more than a half inch across. These will have been recent fruiting bodies, and may yet grow to be several inches wide, as could be found on this tree in earlier years.

This year’s second type had some individuals slightly larger than the mazegills. If they too are a recurrence of a species from earlier years, they are perhaps blushing brackets.