Wolves Wild

Black club-shaped fungi, growing on a second patch of lawn outside the front of the same flats as the wrinkled club fungi (posted December 2nd). Too far away for a proper inspection.

It’s going to get called a daddy-long-legs, but count how many legs it’s got: eight not six. An arachnid not an insect. Possibly an Oligolophus hansenii, and if so, not particularly common.

They look like tiny white stalks, less than an inch high among the short grass of a front lawn. They are wrinkled club, quite easy to miss.

Bantock Park as most of the leaves were beginning to change colour for the autumn. Bantock House just shows through the trees above, while my shadow intrudes below.

Wood blewits are another of the many mushroom species which grow in association with trees: in their case, a wide variety of deciduous or coniferous trees. When fresh, the caps have a lilac (sometimes pinkish) colour, which has faded on these specimens.

Lone tree in West Park, its leaves turning colour for the autumn, starting at the top and working down.