Chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms (Laetiporus sulphureus), growing on trunk of dead tree, forest, E USA, by James D Coppinger/Dembinsky Photo Assoc

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Size: 8688px × 5792px
Location: Michigan USA
Photo credit: © James D Coppinger/ Dembinsky Photo Associates / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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