Horse hoof fungus works its way up a very mature dead beech tree trunk bleached by the sun and bark peeled off, used for tinder Fomes fomentarius

---

Size: 4912px × 7360px
Location: Vigo, Kent, UK
Photo credit: © Yon Marsh Natural History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: amadou, ancient, artist, bark, beech, body, bole, bracket, crevice, cuticle, dead, death, decay, decaying, fagus, fall, false, fomentarius, fomes, fruiting, fungi, fungus, ganoderma, group, hispidus, holes, hoof, horses, horseshoe, inonotus, lignin, mushroom, mychology, parasitic, polypore, riddled, row, stripped, sylvatica, tinder, toadstool, tree, trunk, woodworm