Birch In The Wild

A gallery of birch trees on exmoor and all the flora and fauna it supports.

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Turkey Tail fungus

Trametes versicolour
a medicinal mushroom
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Birch Trees

late February
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Hazel Catkins

home of dormice in the Summer
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Sleeping dormouse
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Usnea

Usnea barbata ( Old Man's Beard)
tree lichen
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Who lives in here?
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Usnea

and other lichens
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Birch tree

with big arms
(unusual shape)
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Witches' Tongue

Exidia glandulosa
Witches' tongue fungus
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Birch polypore

Fomitopsis Betulima
(birch bracket or razor strop)
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Chagford National Birch Arboretum

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Chagford National Birch Arboretum

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Chagford National Birch Arboretum

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Chagford National Birch Arboretum

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Chagford National Birch Arboretum

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Chagford National Birch Arboretum
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Chagford National Birch Arboretum

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Exmoor National Park

with birches
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Birch Chaga

fungus
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Usnea
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Birch polypore

in various stages of decay
these fungus are know as saprophytes because they obtain nutrients directly from dead or dying organic matter
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Stereaceae

non ediable, very poisonous
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Witches' Broom

Taphrina betulina
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Cladoniaceae

a very poisonous fungus
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Birch polypore
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Birch polypore

undersides
so called because these mushrooms do not have gills
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Birch polypores
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Whortleberry or Bilberry Bush

in flower
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Birch trees

breaking into leaf
May
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Cladoniaceae
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Beauty is in the detail

a groundhugging tiny Vetch
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Profusion of fresh birch leaves

ideal for making tea
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Gorse

in flower on the Moor
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Nut Tree Tussock caterpillar

Colocasia coryli
which will become a moth from the Noctuidae family
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