As it fed on the ivy flowers, this comma butterfly kept flexing its wings. Its hairy body became very obvious when the wings were near the horizontal.
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Leaves turning yellow, Bantock Park
Trees by the Pitch and Putt at Bantock Park as their leaves changed colour for the autumn.
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November blackberries
Blackberries, ripe and ripening, on a sunny morning earlier this month.
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Horse’s hoof fungus
Horse’s hoof fungus ls also known as the tinder fungus, because it is the source of amadou, a substance which can be set aflame by a single spark.
Ötzi the Iceman, the prehistoric man found preserved in an Alpine glacier, had some amadou in a pouch.
Why are these mushrooms called tawny funnelcaps? They’re brown. They have a depression in the middle of their caps, making the caps look a bit like a funnel.
They are fairly common mushrooms of late summer and autumn, associated with trees – usually conifers.
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Tiny mushrooms in short lawn grass
Mushrooms so small that there caps were barely over the well-mown lawn outside the Chestnut Tree pub in Finchfield.
