This is a hard fungus episode! The point is that the mushrooms shown here are hard-textured variants that can survive in hot weather for extended periods of time.
An unused spark plug was found on a cypress wood slab near the Bungkaih train station. The heat and rain had rusted the spark plug, and interestingly, it was being suffocated by a smoky bracket plume. I'm not sure who thought it was a good idea to just put the spark plug there.
There were a few more cypress slabs there, and smoky brackets freely invaded what appeared to be stacked lumps of fat.
The surface of this smoky bracket was visibly soiled with sawdust hollowed out by beetles. It looked like an ancient fossil from thousands of years ago.
The smoky bracket, scientifically known as Bjerkandera adusta , is a fungus that belongs to the family Meruliaceae. The fungus commonly occurs on old, damp hardwoods that are perpetually wet from the rain.
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