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Dead man’s fingers are quite a common fungus. They grow on dead wood, here in Himley Plantation.

The small stream which flows through Himley Plantation broadens to form a couple of pools – one of them is little more than a big patch of marshy ground after a long dry spell. This one looks a bit sinister even in bright autumn sunlight. To me, it seems like it ought to be harbouring a nixie or the like.

Turning face about from the view in the previous shot, it’s a light, airy woodland view.

Shaggy parasol mushrooms in West Park, a group of over fifty growing in a line through the trees opposite South Lodge.

One end of the row, out from under the trees and in the short grass, was what nust have been a few newly emerged fruiting bodies. I didn’t recognise them as being from the same species.

The middle of this month, and most thistles had stopped flowering some time ago; their seeds ripened, and been dispersed by the wind or eated by goldfinches. AS rare exeption, this plant by the footpath across Compton Rough.

Clouded agarics are quite common in the autumn fungi season which is now upon us. Despite their greyish colour, they can be quite easy to spot. Caps are usually at least two inches in diameter, and can spread up to nine or ten inches. They are almost always found in clumps or cluster, in woodland, either deciduous or coniferous.

These were growing on a dead-end footpath in Old Nursery Wood.

Close view of some lime tree fruits as they were ripening. These were on trees in Compton Park.