pie.peA fruiting body
The bracket is the visible fruiting body. Fine fungal threads, called hyphae, can grow through the wood: the shelf is only part of the organism.
An invitation to look closer
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The forest keeps more than it shows.
02 / The encounter
Small enough to overlook.
What you see
is a beginning.
A shelf in the bark. Three observations. Another way of seeing.
Field note 001 · Waiting to be found
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What is a bracket fungus?
A shelf on a tree. A life mostly out of sight.
A hidden underside
Many bracket fungi have tiny pores underneath. Spores form on the surfaces of tubes opening into these pores and are released into the air. Not every bracket has pores.
Wood becomes a beginning
Many wood-decaying fungi help recycle nutrients by breaking down wood. Some also grow in living trees and can weaken their wood. A bracket alone does not tell the whole story.
An imagined forest made with AI-generated films. These images do not identify a species or document a named place.
03 / Back in the light
Same forest.
Another way of seeing.
Every ending makes room for something new.
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