David

Turkey tail is a common year-round bracket fungus, with a cluster of small fan-shaped fruiting bodies. The white stain on the same tree stump is perhaps the white rot as the fungus digests the wood.

A liquidambar tree by the lake in West Park, with leaves which turn vivid colours in autumn. Usually I take its picture from the opposite side of the lake, getting double value from its reflection in the water. For a change, here it is with the lake and the island just showing as background.

Deceivers, small mushrooms which can crop up mush of the year as long as it’s not too cold. Deceptive because they are very variable in form, making it easy for some of us to fool ourselves that we’ve spotted something more interesting.

The trees at the back of the West Park chalet (currently the tea rooms) turned a particularly varied set of colour this autumn.

More late-season fungi: a cluster of mushrooms which may be hen of the woods, at least according to the pattern-matching algorithm at iNaturalist.

Another try at capturing the unusual berry colour of one of the purple beautyberries in West Park. This time I ignored the macro function on my phone’s camera.