Fungus

A black fungus growing on a willow.  To judge by the texture it could be a dried out specimen of tripe fungus, Auricularia mesenterica.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2015-02-28.

Fungus

A Mollisia sp. disc fungus, possibly Mollisia cinerea.

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-11-22.

Fungus

An orange crust fungus, probably Peniophora incarnata growing on a conifer log.

Photo taken in Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2015-02-15.

Fungus

Young fruiting bodies of Kretzschmaria deusta growing on the stump of a beech tree (Fagus sp).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-12-25.

Fungus

A fruiting body of Daldinia concentrica with a part cut away to show the concentric bands in the interior.

The were many growing on the trunk of a decaying beech tree (Fagus sp):

Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, Uk, on 2014-12-25.