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Unusual fluffy ice sprouts in Loch Ness woodland

Unusual fluffy ice has been spotted in woodland on the shores of Loch Ness.

The phenomenon known as hair ice, frost flowers or frost beard only forms under specific conditions.

The crystals sprout on humid winter nights from moist, rotting wood that have a particular fungus – Exidiopsis effusa.

The fungus is needed for a process called ice segregation which creates the delicate, thin “hairs” of ice.

The woodland on Aldourie Castle Estate is near Dores, just south of Inverness.


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