David

A large oak by the river in the Bancroft Gardens, Stratford on Avon. A few people can be seen behind it, watching the swans swim up and down the water.

This autumn, some of the local acers seem to have outdone themselves in the brightness of the reds of their leaves. This one was in a front garden.

Clustered domecaps, a fairly common mushroom which – surprise – tends to grow in clusters. They often grow close to paths, as these were doing in a woody area in West Park.

A big pile of fungi photos: there have been so many this autumn that I haven’t kept up with posting them, or even trying to work out which species they are.

Trees beside the perimeter path in West Park, changing colour before the autumn leaf fall.

Suede boletes. From a distance, the tops of the caps do actually look rather like they’re suede, especially when the mushrooms are recent. The underside of the caps don’t have gills: boletes release their spores through pores.

These were growing under beech trees at the side of Richmond Road.