Nature's trophy Series: Blue Bracket Fungus

Blue Bracket Fungus (Postia caesia)*

Layer after layer, shelf after shelf,

season after season, you grow

into a colony several storeys high,

page after page, row by row,

dying in summer, rising in spring,

bluest in autumn glow;

rarest color in living things on earth, 

yet widest, deepest is blue; 

dead you'll be after your host tree,

beyond you live as a trophy.

Dr Abe V Rotor 

A colony of blue bracket mushroom (Postia caesia) made into a piece of art - Nature's trophy by the author. The trophy, 14" tall, is among other Nature's trophies on display at Living with Nature Center, San Vicente Botanical Garden, San Vicente Ilocos Sur

*Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, are among the many groups of fungi that comprise the phylum Basidiomycota. Characteristically, they produce shelf- or bracket-shaped or occasionally circular fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close pattern, (Internet)