Author: David

These trees by the edge of the paddling pool on Tettenhall Upper Green were pictured at the end of October.

Either red cracking or perhaps the sepia bolete

The colours of this fallen leaf were further muted by a coating of frost on a recent morning.

Related to the cultivated oyster fungus, which is whiter.

This one was growing on the top of a tree stump by the Bridgnorth Road. The base of the same trunk was covered in a swarm of honey fungus.

Scarlet berries against the dull green of the evergreen leaves. Yews are particularly long-lived, and often found in churchyards.

One of the characteristic fruits of autumn, and potent ingredient of home-fermented wine, the elderberries are a distinctive black fruit at the end of bright red stems.