Fungal architecture

In London today visiting an old friend who is very ill, and back after dark. Knowing this would be the case I tried taking some shots from the train as we passed closest to my nature reserve, but they really were rubbish. So, there was nothing for it but to have a delve into my collections of natural history bits and pieces. I'd forgotten about this twig with a wonderful bracket fungus clasping it. I must have collected it about 20 years ago and it was significant because it was the first season I looked seriously at the range of different fungi in and around the reserve and started to name them. I was pleased with myself for knowing this fungus as Coriolus versicolor. Since then it has changed its name to Trametes versicolor and taken on the rather useful descriptive common name of Turkeytail. It is terribly common on dead wood, but no less beautiful for this.