Filnore fungi 3 - on stump ends

Many fungi live on dead wood, often on the cut ends of logs and stumps.  Here are four common ones:

Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum) 

 Photo: Simon Harding

Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor OR Coriolus versicolor) 

with concentric bands of colour.

Photo: Simon Harding

Chondrostereum purpureum starts off beige

 Then goes purply

Photo: Simon Harding

And eventually changes from being resupinate (flat on the wood) to a curly bracket.

And lastly some Jelly Ear on the end of a log.  It used to be called Jew's Ear, reflected in the scientific name Auricularia auricula-judae, because it occurs most frequently on Elder, which was one of the trees reputed to have been the one Judas Iscariot hanged himself from.  

  

It is soft and slightly furry, which does make it feel a bit like a human ear.  Put one in a feely bag and fool your friends!

And another couple of Jelly Ears on a dead Elder branch.

Photo: Simon Harding