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CIRCLE OF LIFE
A small group of Velvet Shank fungi clinging to the top of a tree stump, and curiously showing various stages of its life cycle.
Fungi belong to their own kingdom and get their nutrients and energy from organic matter, rather than photosynthesis like plants.
It is often just the fruiting bodies, or 'mushrooms', that are visible to us, arising from an unseen network of tiny filaments called 'hyphae'. These fruiting bodies produce spores for reproduction, although fungi can also reproduce asexually by fragmentation.
Location: Great Ayton, North Yorkshire.UK
