Reddish brown and white, fan-shaped, perennial fruiting body of Heterobasidion root disease, Heterobasidion annosum, that envelops needles and twigs dropped on the ground as is characteristic of the fungus.

Reddish brown and white, fan-shaped, perennial fruiting body of Heterobasidion root disease. Credit: Andrej Kunca, National Forest Centre - Slovakia, Bugwood.org<br />Licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License</a>
Credit: Andrej Kunca, National Forest Centre - Slovakia, Bugwood.org
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License