David

Fruit of a so-called strawberry tree. The plant is more of a bush. The fruit looks a little like a strawberry from a distance, and is supposedly edible.

Reminder of a summer which now seems to have been a long time ago: a gatekeeper butterfly feeding on one of the thistles in Barley Field.

Reed growing by the canal at Compton, drenched from overnight rain, as the seeds were beginning to develop.

One of the fruiting bodies of the lumpy bracket in the previous post had been growing on the birch stump long enough that it was supporting its own flora – greenish algae.

Lumpy bracket fungus growing on a tree stump in Baggeridge Park. Seen from below it’s like a small labyrinth.

The lumpy upper surface.

Tawny grisettes with the rounded caps of newly-grown fruiting bodies, which had probably come up overnight.

Compare the flattened caps of the more mature versions.

I thought the caps were more the range of colours of egg yolks than tawny.