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Pictures from a re-visit exactly a week later to the fly agarics which feature here.

Rain has washed away most of the red colour from the caps, which are a bit more nibbled.

Mushrooms growing in the wood at Wightwick Manor recently.

They were growing among leaf-litter …

… and further camouflaged as more falling leaves landed on them.

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Glistening inkcaps, and indeed all inkcaps, deliquesce as they loose their spores.

The flesh of their caps blackens, then disintegrates.

The same spider’s web, viewed from opposite sides early one morning after a heavy morning dew.

Spider’s web in one of the Wightwick Manor garden bushes, outlined in the morning dew.

A pile of logs in the wood at Wightwick Manor. The white speckling on the cut ends of the logs is fungal, and quite likely to be the infection which meant the tree had to be cut down.