Three views of the same butter waxcap, showing the differences made by small changes in camera angle. All three shots were taken low down, close to the small mushroom, this one level at cap height.
Looking down from slightly above, and up from slightly below the cap.
The mushroom was one of those we were shown on last month’s fungi hunt on Northycote Farm.
Poison pie is a mushroom which lives up to its name.
Whatever has been nibbling this one, probably a squirrel, will have had a badly upset stomach.
Aging spiny puffball fungus which had lost its spines. The soil on the bottom left shows where it had also been uprooted before I got to it.
Only a few of Gloucester Old Spot piglets born in the spring of 2013 on Northycote Farm can still be seen there.
This one was digging deeply in a muddy area of its enclosure in search of something the last time I visited the farm.
Trooping funnels are mushrooms which tend to be found in grass or leaf litter in clearings, here the lawn in front of a block of flats.
The cap starts off pointed. As it expands, the rim is raised. Eventually it becomes funnel shaped.
As the name implies, they are normally found in groups.
Decorative berries on a dogwood shrub in a front garden: a dense cluster of snow white berries tipped purple, growing on a red stem.
This shrub had variegated green leaves.