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Kent wildlife park keeper finds rare coral fungus on fallen log (www.bbc.co.uk)
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A rare fungus once thought extinct in Britain has been discovered at a wildlife park in Kent.

The crown-tipped coral fungus was spotted growing on a fallen log at Wildwood Trust near Canterbury by a keeper near the rabbit enclosure.

Also known as candelabra coral, the fungus went 116 years without a confirmed sighting before being rediscovered in Suffolk in 2012, heritage officer Steve Kirk said.

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Coral fungi are frustrating for me. A few kinds that grow here look so much a like that you need to magnify their spores to tell them apart.

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