One of several species of mushrooms which depends on a symbiotic relationship with a birch tree, so is only found immediately near birches.
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Holly berries – with bonus cricket
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Earth stars
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Well chewed brown roll-rim
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Small flock of gulls
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Larch bolete
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Blackening waxcap
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Panther cap
Autumn is the peak time for fungi, so that’s why they are dominating the posts at the moment.
The panther cap is not a particularly common mushroom, but this one was growing right by a canal bank near Compton.
This specimen seems to have proved a reliable food source for something small in the way of the local wildlife. All pictures are of the same individual. The top two are views from the side and top; the lowest picture was taken a couple of days earlier as the toadstool emerged, already nibbled at.
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