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Fomes fomentarius
What can I say? The name says it all. It really does look extraordinarily like a hoof protruding from the trunk of a tree! This one was white with light brown sqiggly markings. This is a fungal pathogen...it will become a decomposer when the tree dies.
This was spotted growing high up on a tree close to a remote place called Kolakham in the northern part of West Bengal, India . The place is about 6000 m (or a bit more) above sea level. Hilly area. We were driving to see a waterfall when one of us saw a woodpecker and I saw this fungus. We stopped to shoot...the bird flew away; the fungus didnot.
I first saw this fungus on PN, and so instantly recognized it when I saw one myself. Saw some more on another tree the next day. Will post shortly. Wikipedia says the Ice Man had some pieces of this fungus in his pack.
Spotted on Mar 25, 2015
Submitted on Mar 27, 2015
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