The beefsteak is a woodland fungus which looks like a raw cut piece of meat. It even oozes a blood-like substance when cut! When it is starting to grow, this bracket fungus looks like a tongue poking out of a tree trunk. As it matures, it begins to look more like a piece of raw steak or liver. The underside is made up of small, cream-coloured pores which release spores turning reddish-brown as it ages and bruising deep red brown. Spores are pale pink, egg-shaped and smooth. Beefsteak fungus is common in the UK and can be found in various places around the Barff. It is usually found in broadleaved woodland, low on the trunks of oak trees and sometimes on recently cut oak stumps. It can be found from late summer through to the autumn.