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Verdigris mushrooms, the colour of their caps strong at first, later more delicate after rain. These were growing on wood-chip mulch near the city centre Sainsbury’s.

Vivid autumnal colours from the leaves of a maple on the Bylet at Bridgnorth.

Horse with a long bushy mane and tail, with sleeping foal in a field at Himley.

Glistening inkcaps, usually grow on clumps on wood – tree stumps or underground deadwood. There were just a few on a mossy stump in Himley Plantation.

Mycenae are a genus of mushrooms where it is often difficult to identify individual species. They are small, have a thin, fragile stem, and are usually pale with a conical cap. Several different mycena species are included in these pictures, taken on a recent visit to the Woodland Trust’s Himley Plantation.

Roadside maple on the edge of Himley village, at the end of last month when its leaves were just beginning to develop the bright reds and yellows of autumn.