One group of mushrooms which peak during the autumn fungi flush, and sometimes carry on showing even when winter frosts arrive, are waxcaps.
Waxcaps are tiny mushrooms, usually a centimetre or two tall. But the different species come in a range of distinctive colours: yellows, reds, greens, or shades ranging from white to black. The colours are often bright in fresh specimens, but can fade, especially after rain.
Fresh snowy waxcaps are conical-capped and a bright white – traces of the this colour cans still be around the rim of this specimen. Here, the cap has not merely flattened, but turned inside out like an umbrella caught in a strong wind.