About

Angel's wings is a distinctive, white, bracket-like fungus that grows in clusters on decaying conifer wood. Relatively common in coniferous woodland in the Scottish highlands, it is also found in the south of Scotland and in Cumbria, but is it is very rare elsewhere. It is inedible. Fungi belong to their own kingdom and get their nutrients and energy from organic matter, rather than photosynthesis like plants. It is often just the fruiting bodies, or 'mushrooms', that are visible to us, arising from an unseen network of tiny filaments called 'hyphae'. These fruiting bodies produce spores for reproduction, although fungi can also reproduce asexually by fragmentation.