A walk along Gove Hill Bottom wood today revealed two fungi that grow on both living or dead wood. The most promient were several, all on a snigle tree, of the Dryad's Saddle, Polyporus squamosus. one of the larger polypores.
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| Dryad's Saddle. Photo John M Elliott. click to enlarge. |
The thick white flesh is unfortunately inedible.
Also showing well beside the path were many of the small, black fungi known, for obvious reasons, as King Alfred's Cakes, Daldinia concentrica.
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| King Alfred's Cakes. Photo. John M Elliott.Click to enlarge. |
In spite of the name these also are classified as inedible.
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