Category: David

By the Birmingham canal near where it runs under Bilston Road. Formerly a lively point of trans-shipment of goods between rail and canal, this site is now owned by the German railway (DB), who don’t seem to be making any use of it.

Inkcaps are a group of fungi species which spread their spores by means of the caps disintegrating into a black gungy mess. These pictures illustrate successive stages of this process in one common inkcap species.

A series of views of several individuals of this cracking bolete – there are various different species, so I’m not sure precisely what kind these were.

They were growing on a high grassy bank by Wolverhampton ring road, just round the corner from some of the catkins in the previous post.

More formally known as Garrya elliptica. The first picture is of catkins on a bush in a private garden. The others are from a bush beside a gated entrance of the University on Wulfruna Street.

This view looking past the bandstand and over the barely visible boating lake towards the Conservatory was taken at the same time as yesterday’s views.

Another mushroom found growing hiding in the short grass of a roadside lawn.