Close up of a large, pale, wet shelf fungus amid green lichen growing on an old rotting tree trunk in a western North Carolina forest

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Size: 5184px × 3456px
Location: North Carolina, USA
Photo credit: © Judith Bicking / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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