Author: David

The pleated caps are a hint that these are some species of inkcaps. The general shape and size suggests glistening inkcaps, but they are usually a more subdued brown.

Standing in the middle of a front lawn, its bright orange colour making it stand out despite it’s size, a single meadow waxcap.

A mushroom which seems to be cropping up even more often than usual this autumn: red cracking boletes.

The original mushrooms looked like they may have been up for some time, and got into a state were they were already hard to identify confidently. The patina of mould didn’t help.

One of the less common types of oyster fungus, this one is a veiled oyster fungus.

Growing in the gap between a garden wall and the pavement, this a a cut-leaved dead nettle. It’s not actually a nettle, and “dead” in that it doesn’t sting.