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A false puffball growing on the remaining stump of a tree which was felled a few years ago. False puffballs are one of the commoner (more easily noticed) of slime moulds.

According to Wikipedia, false puffballs are gathered to be eaten growing wild in parts of Mexico and Ecuador.

On the same lawn as a mushroom spotted a few weeks earlier, and possibly another fruiting body sent up by the same underground network, some kind of boletes, already well nibbled.

A scarlet tiger moth at rest – no scarlet showing on its folded wings – clinging on to a leaf.

Lone mushroom growing on a lawn during the hot spell last month. Possibly some species of milkcap.

From the garden of the Bishops Castle Hotel, Bishops Castle, like the pictures in the previous post. Scabious flowers with a visiting bumblebee. A hoverfly also intruded in one of the shots in the sequence.

A particularly vivid red rose which was one of the flowers in the (beer) garden of the Bishops Castle Hotel, built on the site of the former castle in the eponymous Shropshire town.