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Pipe club fungus revisited

Pipe club fungus revisited

Pipe club fungus: a revisit to the location with these delicate fungi about three weeks after the original pictures were taken. The fruiting bodies were a little larger, and couple of them seemed to be starting to unfold at the top.

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Autumn shades: mottled oak leaf

Autumn shades: mottled oak leaf

Yellows and browns mottle an oak leaf before it drops from the tree.

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Paperbark maple foliage in autumn

Paperbark maple, Bantock Park

Paperbark maples are mainly grown for their decorative peeling bark. But like many non-native deciduous trees (this one grows wild in China) the leaves turn spectacular colours in autumn. These were on the same tree featured in the previous post.

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Paperbark maple, Bantock Park

Paperbark maple, Bantock Park

Paperbark maples are ornamental bushes grown for the decorative effects of the bark as it peels from the tree. This one is in the car park at Bantock House.

Paperbark maple, Bantock Park

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Autumn colours: cotinus leaves after rain

Autumn colours: cotinus leaf after rain

The vivid autumn colours of a cotinus (smoke bush) seemed even more intense in the morning after heavy overnight rain.

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Two fungi

Two fungi

Bracket fungus, possibly a horses hoof fungus, with a smaller gilled fungus below.