The Dryad's saddles are in season once again.

These enormous  polypore bracket fungi Polyporus squamosus, known colloquially as Dryad's saddles, have been feasting on this rotting tree stump for at least ten years. Over that time they must have produced many billions of spores and yet I have only ever found one other example in the area. Not the fastest of breeders!
In Greek mythology, a dryad was a nymph or nature spirit who lives in trees and takes the form of a beautiful young woman. Dryads were originally the spirits of oak trees, drys meaning oak, but the name was later applied to all tree nymphs. It was believed that they lived only as long as the trees they inhabited.