Autumn colour: ginkgo

Autumn colour: ginkgo

A row of ginkgo trees, leaves turning vividly yellow for autumn. No sign yet this year of falling fruits on the one female tree in the row.

Autumn fungi: bracket fungi on a tree trunk

Autumn fungi: bracket fungi on a tree trunk

A tree trunk growing well off from the vertical, and all along it, the fruiting bodies of a bracket fungus. The views from below show the pores (not gills) where the spores come out.