Most of the seeds of this plant have now dried and been scattered.
Other nearby hogweeds are still showing flowers, although they are getting rather straggly
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Orange peel fungus
In shape, it looks like a tiny, squashed cup, without any visible stem.
Grows on open soil under trees.
These are new specimens. Very soon, they become paler on the outer surface, and more and more resemble fragments of discarded orange peel to a casual glance – a process which has gone a little further along in the specimens below.
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Fly agaric
The classic toadstool of fairy story illustrators.
Don’t try at home to test out its hallucinogenic properties: the toxic chemicals which cause this effect are as likely to give some very unpleasant, and just possibly fatal, symptoms.
In Britain, this mushroom is always found close to birch trees.
Not an apple, but a mutant leaf forming the cradle for the larva of a gall wasp.
The hole is where the larva eventually came out.
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Snowy wax cap
The snowy wax cap, Hygrocybe nivea, is bright white in colour.
Despite this, it can be hard to spot lurking in short grass in places like sportsfields or lawns.
Bright colours aren’t always a sign that something should not be eaten.
During the second world war, schoolkids were sent to pick rosehips, which are a rich source of vitamin C.