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Strawberry (not)

Strawberry (not)

Fruit of a so-called strawberry tree. The plant is more of a bush. The fruit looks a little like a strawberry from a distance, and is supposedly edible.

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Gatekeeper on a thistle

Gatekeeper on a thistle

Reminder of a summer which now seems to have been a long time ago: a gatekeeper butterfly feeding on one of the thistles in Barley Field.

Gatekeeper on a thistle

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Wet seed reed

Wet seed reed

Reed growing by the canal at Compton, drenched from overnight rain, as the seeds were beginning to develop.

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Lumpy bracket with algae

Lumpy bracket with algae

One of the fruiting bodies of the lumpy bracket in the previous post had been growing on the birch stump long enough that it was supporting its own flora – greenish algae.

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Lumpy bracket

Lumpy bracket

Lumpy bracket fungus growing on a tree stump in Baggeridge Park. Seen from below it’s like a small labyrinth.

Lumpy bracket

The lumpy upper surface.

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Young tawny grisettes

Young tawny grisette

Tawny grisettes with the rounded caps of newly-grown fruiting bodies, which had probably come up overnight.

Tawny grisette

Compare the flattened caps of the more mature versions.

Young tawny grisette

I thought the caps were more the range of colours of egg yolks than tawny.

Young tawny grisette