Laurie Campbell / Common / Shiny woodlouse (Oniscus asellus) on Jelly / Jew's ear fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae) Berwickshire, Scotland, February.

Chris Mattison / Black jelly fungus (Exidia plana) on dead Oak branch, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. January.

Nick Upton / Jelly ear / Jew's ear fungus (Auricularia auricula judae) growing from rotting Elder log in deciduous woodland, Wiltshire, UK, February.

Nick Upton / Jelly ear / Jew's ear fungus (Auricularia auricula judae) growing from rotting Elder log in deciduous woodland, Wiltshire, UK, February.

Alex Hyde / Jelly / Jew's Ear Fungus (Auricularia auricula judae) Derbyshire, UK. January.

Alex Hyde / Jelly / Jew's Ear Fungus (Auricularia auricula judae) photographed in mobile field studio against a white background. Derbyshire, UK. January.

Bernard Castelein / Wood ear fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae) on damp branch, Brasschaat, Belgium. September.

Bernard Castelein / Wood ear fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae) on damp branch, Brasschaat, Belgium. September.

Nick Upton / Hair ice extruded from a rotting stick containing fungus (Exidiopsis effusa), Nagshead RSPB Reserve, Parkend, Forest of Dean,, Gloucestershire, UK, January. Ice persists in temperatures above freezi...

Will Watson / Jelly ear fungus (Auricularia auricula judae) growing on Elder (Sambucus nigra) tree branch with Maritime sunburst lichen (Xanthoria parietina), Stocking Meadow Nature Reserve, Herefordshire, England,...

Ann & Steve Toon / Hair ice formed around fungus (Exidiopsis effusaon) on decaying wood in winter, Sidwood, Northumberland, UK. January.

Konrad Wothe / Apricot jelly mushroom (Tremiscus helvelloides) growing on forest floor, Germany, Europe. August.