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  View of Giant Horsetail, Epping Forest, Essex, England   Giant Horsetail (Equisetum telmateia) growing along the banks of the Tippa Burn. It likes damp shady areas so there is quite a lot of it here.

The Tippa Burn is shown on the location map (link above) and starts under the "k" of "Jack's Hill".

 

 

 

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  Picture of the area around Jack's Hill, Epping Forest, Essex, England   Looking down from the high ground near Copley Plain into the Tippa Burn valley. Note the pollarded Beeches of varying sizes.

 

 

 

 

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  Picture of fungi on a fallen Beech in the area around Jack's Hill, Epping Forest, Essex, England   Many-zoned Polypore fungi (Trametes versicolor) on a fallen Beech.

This is a very common fungus but is not edible.

 

 

 

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