Category: David

About an inch tall, with a cap and stem already nibbled by snails and slugs, a mushroom growing on a front lawn. ID’d by iNaturalist as a rufous milkcap.

The unseasonable mildness of the weather seems to be triggering lots of yuccas to have a go at a second flowering as winter approaches.

This one, in late November, was in a front garden,

Rollrim mushroom growing by the new cyclepath / footpath in the middle of the ring road by the Molineux. Recent heavy rain had left a small pool of water in the middle of the mushroom’s cap.

One vivid red fallen leaf by the path at Bantock Park, contrasting strongly with the surrounding tones.

Blewitt growing on a roadside grassy area at Compton. May be a field blewitt (at least according to the pattern recognition identification at iNaturalist)

Late August. Water mint on the Compton Park pond in full flower, attracting large numbers of bees.