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The bright autumn colours of a Virginia creeper. This one was clinging to a conifer in the garden of a house near to the Upper Green, Tettenhall.

Pictures are of the fungus showing its development one week after the photos here.

A small spider was crawling along the rim of this flower.

A single waterlily flower still blooming in the Bantock Park pond a month ago, with the autumn leaf-fall beginning to accumulate on the lily pads.

Fairiesbonnets are tiny inkcap mushrooms which grow in clusters on wood. These were just above ground level on one of the trees along Tettenhall Road.

Amethyst deceivers are small mushrooms which grow in association with coniferous trees.

When they first emerge, they are brightly coloured with the hue of amethysts (lavenderish semi-precious stones). The deception which their name indicates includes their fading with age, adding to the difficulty in identifying them.

These had only just begun to fade, even though they had been around long enough for something to have eaten almost half the cap of the largest one.