Author: David

Another small toadstool, inconspicuous even in short grass.

These fungi are growing through fallen cones and fir tree debris. They look like they have been moulded out of a pale orange gel.

CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as possibly false chanterelle

This tiny toadstool barely rises above the cut lawn grass.

Today’s posts are all of small, unidentified mushrooms. These are two groups of the same species at different stages of development. They were growing in an roadside lawn.

Vivid autumn colours, but once again from a cultivated, exotic tree.

This layer on top of the bullrush fruiting body is fairly common – moist in the upper example, dried in the lower. Is it some form of mould?

This pair of ducks were swimming on the pool on the Cotwell End LNR.

The standard mushroom of the supermarket shelves. Someone had knocked one over to give a clear view of the gills, below.

I couldn’t decide which picture I preferred, so here is a selection.

This mushroom is rare, and doesn’t have an English name. It was growing on wood chipping mulch.

Gulls – but what species of gull?

The husk of the seed heads: the seeds themselves have been blown away or eaten.  Two different thistle species still show their various forms.