Category: David

Pedunculate oak acorns have a long stem. The acorns may, as here, themselves be elongated.

Acorns on the other native oak, the sessile oak, have cups much nearer the stem.

St John’s wort: this one in Bantock Park is a variety with more than usually ornamental berries.

Three ladybird larvae which were all within a few feet of each other in someone’s front garden.

They are probably all harlequin ladybirds – a species introduced to control pests, and now a pest which threatens the survival of native ladybird species.

The delicate structure of a cotinus: this one growing at the back of the West Park tearooms.

Dryad’s saddle is a fairly common bracket fungus which can grow on a variety of trees. This one was on a heavily pruned elder in a front garden.

Yarrow seeds ripening on the plant. I couldn’t decide which picture I liked best.