This year’s crop is now ripening.
Category: David
Tiny toadstools
Cluster of brickcap mushrooms
Brown rollrim
A mushroom which used to be eaten in some parts of Europe. More recently it has been realized that it can have worse effects that causing gastric upsets in some of those who eat it: it can occasionally prove fatal.
Presumably the fungus does not have the same effect on whatever small creatures have been nibbling at this specimen.
Rosy brittlegill
Blackberries
The blusher?
Cortinarius species
Now grown beyond its earlier state here.
Panther cap
Spiders on their webs
Shaggy inkcaps
The inkcaps are a family of mushrooms which spread their spores by deliquescing. Their caps are transformed into a black slime, which is indeed the pores.
Another name for this species is lawyers wig. At a certain stage in their decomposition the caps can look very like a barrister’s less than pristine headgear (below and especially above).
The specimens pictured here show the range of stages from newly emerged to almost completely deliquesced.