Nick Upton / Beech woodwart / Red cushion Hypoxylon (Hypoxylon fragiforme) fruting bodies on a Beech (Fagus sylvatica) log producing black spores, GWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, October.
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Nick Upton / Beech woodwart / Red cushion Hypoxylon (Hypoxylon fragiforme) fruiting bodies on a Beech (Fagus sylvatica) log producing black spores, GWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, October.
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Adrian Davies / Earthstar fungus (Geastrum triplex) discharging spores following impact from water drop. England, UK, December.
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John Waters / Wide angle shot of flies feeding on the tip of a Common stinkhorn fungus (Phallus impudicus), Mendips, Somerset, UK, July.
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John Waters / Flies feeding on the tip of a Common stinkhorn fungus (Phallus impudicus), Mendips, Somerset, UK, July.
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John Cancalosi / Fern (Selaginella emmeliana) showing sori / spores. Occurs in Central and South America.
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Adrian Davies / Common earthball fungus (Scleroderma citrina). Mature specimens releasing spores, seen as black mass inside ball. Surrey, UK, October.
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Nick Upton / Dense stand of Great horsetail (Equisteum telmateia) spore cones emerging from canal bank, Bathampton, Bath and northeast Somerset, UK, March.
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Nick Upton / Stand of Great horsetail (Equisteum telmateia) spore cones emerging from canal bank, Bathampton, Bath and northeast Somerset, UK, March.
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Nick Upton / Stand of Great horsetail (Equisteum telmateia) spore cones emerging from canal bank, Bathampton, Bath and northeast Somerset, UK, March.
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Paul Harcourt Davies / Hard fern ( Blechnum spicant) showing the sori (cluster of spore producing structures. Beneath the fronds. Sugano, Orvieto, Umbria, Italy, March.
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Chris Mattison / Dog Stinkhorn fungus (Mutinus caninus) with flies feeding on spores. Gait Barrows, Lancashire, UK. October.