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The surface is covered in cracks, and to me looks rather scruffy, indicating it is an earthball rather than a puffball, another type fungus with a somewhat similar shape.

Looking along the canal, with the Wightwick Lock lock-keepers cottage just peeping through the trees in the distance.

The fresher of the two collared earthstars which featured in this post, rephotographed a week later, showing changes to the form over time.

Something had clearly found these honey fungus tempting enough to have a good nibble.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davea2007/10674175925

Despite the name, they are rated as inedible for human consumption.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davea2007/10684822506

Bright red and yellow from ripe crab apples on two trees growing side by side next to the canal in the field behind Compton Lock.

Windfalls and apples still ripening on one of the trees in the orchard at Anne Hathaway’s cottage at Shottery, just outside Stratford on Avon.