King Alfred's Cakes Fungus

Another photo of King Alfred's cakes fungus, Daldinia concentrica, this time with a section cut out of it to show the characteristic concentric black an white layers.  Note also that this specimen is not as black on the outside as the those in my previous post on this fungus.

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-03-13.

Update on Tue 2010-03-23 by Tristram Brelstaff

For more on this fungus see this post at Phil Gates' Beyond the Human Eye blog.