A photo story

Shelf fungi on a fallen branch

I was on a walk at Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina, in November 2025, when I found a fallen branch lined end to end with small shelf fungi. They were pale with brown rims, crowded along the bark, with a little green lichen on the wood, and the branch was lying in pine needles, oak leaves, and pinecones. It was late morning, around 71, with a breeze around 9 miles an hour.

I stopped and took this looking along the branch, with those little shelves running the length of it. Earlier that morning I had stopped at the refuge sign.