Wolves Wild

European hop-hornbeam: a hornbeam whose ripening fruit do look remarkably like hops.

Growing on a mature tree planted at the side of the West Park tearooms.

Small sample of the rich variety of colours in Japanese acer leaves as they begin to turn colour for the autumn.

The first picture is from one of the several acers in West Park; the other from a front garden a few minutes walk from there.

Rosebay willowherbs, at different stages of loosing their feathery seeds.

Drying seed-pods of a yellow rattle. This is the stage in the plant’s life-cycle when it rattles as the seeds are shaken around in the loose pods.

Some kind of polygonom flowering recently near the new pool in Compton Park.

Giant polypore growing at the base of a tree stump in Wombourne churchyard.

Another, much darker, on the lawn at Finchfield Library. This one was probably growing from a tree root.