Category: David

A mushroom which seems to be cropping up even more often than usual this autumn: red cracking boletes.

The original mushrooms looked like they may have been up for some time, and got into a state were they were already hard to identify confidently. The patina of mould didn’t help.

One of the less common types of oyster fungus, this one is a veiled oyster fungus.

Growing in the gap between a garden wall and the pavement, this a a cut-leaved dead nettle. It’s not actually a nettle, and “dead” in that it doesn’t sting.

Growing on a tree stump, and contributing to the recycling of its material, sulfur tuft mushrooms. There’s a chance these can be found through the winter, with a bright colour which makes them easier to spot.

Yet more fruiting bodies thrown up through the tarmac of a pavement by a persistent shaggy inkcap mushroom.