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When Winter Gives Dead Branches Hair

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What is this strange looking stuff? Is this branch just covered in fungus!? Well, it’s not fungus...but fungus DOES have something to do with it!

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Sources:
https://www.biogeosciences.net/12/4261/2015/bg-12-4261-2015.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cRngAm8uqA
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wea.3254
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0021979789902221
https://namyco.org/docs/MycophileMar-Apr2014.pdf

Images:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nigelhomer/31112102242/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrostBeardDetail.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BurstBark.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hair_ice.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cRngAm8uqA
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exidiopsis_effusa_a1_(5).JPG
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/humidity-word-written-on-wet-window-high-level-of-dampness-in-apartment-gm1078226664-288867696
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/21188405576/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146824358@N03/34997659262

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