Juergen Freund / Australian baobab / Boab trees (Adansonia gregorii) against the Cockburn Ranges, Kimberley, Western Australia June 2016.

Philippe Clement / Artist's bracket fungus (Ganoderma applanatum / Ganoderma lipsiense) on tree trunk, Belgium, October

Toby Roxburgh / Artist's Fungus (Ganoderma applanatum) growing on Beech tree (Nothofagus genus), surrounded by brown spores, banks of the River Usk, Wales.

Robert Thompson / Artist fungus (Ganoderma applanatum) growing on tree stump, Tollymore Forest, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK, October

Robert Thompson / Artists' fungus {Ganoderma applanatum} Killevy Castle, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, January

Robert Thompson / Artists' fungus {Ganoderma applanatum} under fallen Beech trunk, Castle Coole, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, Ocotber

Adrian Davies / Artist's Bracket Fungus {Ganoderma applanatum}growing on Beech tree, brown spores visible underneath the brackets

Philippe Clement / Artist's fungus, bracket fungus {Ganoderma applanatum / lipsiense} growing on Beech tree, Belgium

Philippe Clement / Artist's fungus, bracket fungus {Ganoderma applanatum / Ganoderma lipsiense} growing on beech tree, Belgium

Philippe Clement / Artist's bracket {Ganoderma applanatum} growing on dead tree trunk, Belgium.

George McCarthy / Artist's fungus, bracket fungus {Ganoderma applanatum} Selborne, Hampshire, UK

George McCarthy / Artist's fungus growing on tree {Ganoderma applanatum} Woodland, Sussex, England, UK

George McCarthy / Artist's fungus {Ganoderma applanatum} growing on tree trunk, UK.

Adrian Davies / Artist's fungus growing on Beech tree {Ganoderma applanatum} Woodland, Surrey,

Adrian Davies / Yellow flat-footed fly (Agathomyia wankowiczii) galls on Artists fungus (Ganoderma applanatum), Surrey, UK. December.

Doug Wechsler / Five Vinegar flies (Mycodrosophila) and a Forest midge (Cecidomyiidae) resting on underside of Artist conk fungus (Ganoderma applanatum), Crossways Preserve, Pennsylvania, USA. July.

Will Watson / Fungal gall on the Artist's fungus (Ganoderma applanatum), Herefordshire, England, UK. February.

Will Watson / Fungal gall on Artist's fungus (Ganoderma applanatum) caused by Yellow flat-footed fly (Agathomyia wankowiczii), Herefordshire, England, January

Will Watson / Fungal gall on the Artist's fungus (Ganoderma applanatum) caused by Yellow flat-footed fly (Agathomyia wankowiczii), Herefordshire, England, January, focus stacked.

Nick Upton / Young Artist's bracket / conk (Ganoderma applanatum) developing on a rotting deciduous log, GWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, October.