Wolves Wild

A misty autumn morning softens the outlines of the trees in Bantock Park, transforming the landscape’s appearance.

A cool and very misty day last month meant that lots of spiders’ webs were left with overnight condensation. The tiny water droplets made the webs stand out in the early morning light.

Large mushrooms growing amid the more distinctive orange peel fungus (images in a post a week or so ago) in Bantock Park recently. No definite ID. Highly visible, they had been stomped to small pieces by the following day.

Shaggy inkcaps forcing their way through the tarmac of a pavement. The black mark is a product of their deliquescence – the caps turn to mush from the rim inwards, which is this group of mushrooms method for dispersing their spores.

Fungi growing on wood chip mulch in Bantock Park. They’ve been heavily nibbled so it’s hard to be sure what they were, but probably common inkcaps – just possibly some rarer inkcap species.

Honey fungus clustering around the stump of a tree in a front garden. Previously, the fungus will have rotted the tree so that it needed to be felled.

The largest known living organism on earth is a honey fungus, though not of this particular species. It has spread through the entire extent of a forest in the state of Oregon, USA.