It takes centuries to make such trees, and they are a rarity in the modern forest landscape. You can read more about them in this text by @annesvth.bsky.social (in Norwegian) www.nmbu.no/fakulteter/f...

Or the ones that have seen better days

I have a special place in my heart for the ones that are sleepy

In the other end of the making much of itself-scale: Cypripedium calceolus (NO marisko). It grows in calcareous forests.

Pollinating insects are attracted by its sweet smell, but fall down into the big bowl and have to crawl out the back, receiving some pollen on the way out.

Here from Snåsa:

I will admit that the one we found had seen better days. In its prime it is eay more colorful. Photo here by Tom Hellik Hofton, artsdatabanken.no/arter/takson...

Phellinus nigrolimitatus makes small pockets of white rot inside the logs they decompose. They therefore tend to make a very satisfying crunch when you step on them:

Along the Norwegian coast, Lobaria pulmonaria is a characteristic member of the boreal rainforest lichens. Lots of Lobaria species growing on spruce branches and twigs indicate such environments, where the air moisture is high and stable. Here from Overhalla:

Last year, Helene from @biofokus.bsky.social found a fungi growing on the lichen that had not been seen in Norway before: www.nrk.no/buskerud/fan...

Usnea longissima can get really long, but disperses quite slowly as was found in this study from Sweden: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here is my field worker buddy Martin having a religious experience when we were doing field work in Øytjernet nature reserve between Gjøvik and Dokka.