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Clump of mushrooms growing climbing up the trunk of a tree in the Castle Gardens at Bridgnorth.

Clumps of reed leaves growing by a canal, decorated with early morning frost.

Shaggy inkcaps deliquesce once they have released their spores – the caps turn into a slimy-looking black mess. Normally that happens from the edge of the cap towards the centre, but seemed to be working in the opposite direction in these mushrooms.

Meadowsweet are summer flowers of damp places. These, growing right at the edge of the canal, were still around to get dusted in frost after a cold night.

Bright orange velvet shank mushrooms have one of the brightest natural colours of winter, especially when they are moist and glossy.

They grow on the trunks of deciduous trees, living or, as here, fallen.

The remains of hollyhock flowers, some covered in early morning frost. The others were in direct sun, so the frost had gone in the few minutes since dawn.