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The colours of this fallen leaf were further muted by a coating of frost on a recent morning.

Related to the cultivated oyster fungus, which is whiter.

This one was growing on the top of a tree stump by the Bridgnorth Road. The base of the same trunk was covered in a swarm of honey fungus.

Scarlet berries against the dull green of the evergreen leaves. Yews are particularly long-lived, and often found in churchyards.

One of the characteristic fruits of autumn, and potent ingredient of home-fermented wine, the elderberries are a distinctive black fruit at the end of bright red stems.

One of the mushrooms with a reputation as good eating, but which is easily confused with poisonous Clitocybes.

According to the sources this is a common mushroom, but the pictured specimen was a first for me.

This fungus is very variable in form. It is more usually found towards the base of tree trunks, where it is invariably fatal for the tree.