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Black and light grey wavy points. growing from 2x seed pods (Black bean), about 1.5 m away from each other. Seeds~24cm long.
horizontal Black ends with grey vertical tips, which releases dust if touched. Grey ends stand ~3cm tall. Entire fruit including horizontal black end is up to 8cm long. Texture of fruit is wirey/cord-like, quite solid but flexible.

Thick polypores. Seem to start off as white bulges, which develop into light brown shelf-like fruits. White bulges 0.3-1cm wide. Brown fruits 2-8cm wide, and 2.5 cm thick. wide base attachment. Roughly 2xpores per mm. Pore depth roughly half of total thickness, 1.7cm wide, 0.7cm deep pores.

thin, banded upper side, white margin, smooth. Underside white and pored. ~3round pores per mm. smooth, underside also quite dry.
Base attachment, little stem, comes off from bark easily.
Fruits 2-4cm wide.

White spore print

thin, leathery. Brown upperside with fine bands. White on outside edge. Pale brown underside, small stem, very large foot. Smooth underside and upperside. |
0.2-3cm wide cap. foot up to 1cm. fruits 1.5 to 2cm high.

Small brown and white fans. White gills on underside, and upperside grey-brown in the centre and attachment changing to white at the edges. Grey-black in centre gets darker with age.
Fans 0.2-1cm wide.

white gilled fruits.
Have defined stems when small, but stem becomes less defined on larger fruits.
Fruits 0.2-0.5 cm when small, and 1-2.5 when big.
Smooth texture. Cap splits if bent up, but overall quite robust.
Shallow gills.
Most have indent in top of fruit and attachment at the back.

Pale or pale pinky-grey coloured Cauliflower-like clusters of clubs. Fruits are covered in dust which comes off readily when touched. Flexible when wet.

Growing next to these club-like clusters are some grey branching fruits. these resemble more flattened antler growth forms, so may be a different species. These antler-like fruits are also covered in dust which falls when touched.

multibanded, overall orangey colour on uppersurface. can feel ridges which correspond to the different bands, and some radial crinkles as well.
base attachment.
leathery texture, quite flexible.
8-10.5cm fruits.
underside a little rough, with some gentle ridges and bumps.

Stalked puffball.
Slightly furred stem which can be depressed lightly.
Top of the fruit is largely hollow so easily crinkles in when touched, releasing a clod of grey spores from Opening. Opening is furred on the inside.
The top half of the upper section is white, with a regular pattern of dimples across it. this white section is met with a brown covering approximately half way down the head. Brown covering is furry, and cannot be wiped off.
8x fruits in immediate area. Top section ~2.5 cm round. Fruits 2cm tall. Stem 1.5cm wide and 2.7-3cm tall.

Dense, sponge-like fruits, resembling thick pancakes. light orangey-brown upperside and white underside. growing flat against log.
central attachment, no stem.
Smooth upperside ad slight wrinkling on underside radiating out from attachment. Fruits 2-4cm across.