Why are these mushrooms called tawny funnelcaps? They’re brown. They have a depression in the middle of their caps, making the caps look a bit like a funnel.
They are fairly common mushrooms of late summer and autumn, associated with trees – usually conifers.
Mushrooms so small that there caps were barely over the well-mown lawn outside the Chestnut Tree pub in Finchfield.
Brown roll rims are common mushrooms found in association with many species of trees.
They can be poisonous. Indeed, they can kill and have no known antidote, but this has only been known since the end of the Second World War.
Autumn view over the Severn valley looking down from Castle Terrace, Bridgnorth recently.
Two spiders webs on a metal fence, the one behind the other, made more prominent by the morning dew recently.
Mushrooms with fibrous-looking grey caps growing in short grass.