Snakeskin grisettes are members of a group of gilled mushrooms which have grooves on the rims of the caps echoing the gills below.
The “snakeskin” is patches of fleecy, easily removable grey remains of a volva scattered over the cap, not present in tawny grisettes, orange grisettes or plain old grisettes.
Frost on the end of some of the leaves of a white heather after the cold night at the end of last month.
A couple of cold nights towards the end of last month gave the first frosts of the winter, and vegetation decorated with rime.
I went out very soon after dawn, but the ice had already melted showing which parts of these bramble leaves were catching the early sunlight and which still in shadow.
Birch polypores are a common bracket fungus on birch trees. They are also known as the razor strop fungus: one of their uses was for sharpening cut-throat razors.
These were high on the tree, so the views are of the underside of the fungus, the pores through which the spores are released.
Hummocky ground of an overgrown former quarry on the slopes of Sedgley Beacon. In the main picture there is an exposure of limestone almost hidden by moss.
Groups of white stalks growing out of dead wood like this tree stump in Coppice Wood. Candlesnuff fungus is common, and easiest to see at this time of year – later in winter it tends to turn from white to black.