Category: David

Parasols: these large mushrooms have been having a good season. These were growing on a roadside patch of grass in Claverley.

Spikes of purple loosestrife growing by the canal, the flowers almost gone.

The same troop of sheathed woodtuft mushrooms featured in yesterday’s post, this time seen when they were still damp after overnight rain.

Purple loosestrife flowering, these plants growing on the far side of the canal near Meccano Bridge and being reflected in the water.

Sheathed woodtuft mushrooms growing in a troop on the rotting wood of a fallen tree trunk by the Railway Walk near Meccano Bridge. The day these pictures were taken, the mushrooms were dry.

Probably just dry on the surface: this species changes colour when the fungi absorb water, these were very similar to when they had been wet.

Elderberries in the process of ripening. A last few berries are still green, more are turning red, and some beginning to blacken.