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Not beardy yet

Not beardy yet

In a few weeks these seeds will be surrounded by white feathery strands which give the climber its name: old man’s beard.

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Oysterlings in a mossy bed

Oysterlings in a mossy bed

Tiny mushrooms growing in a bed of moss. They are small moss oysterlings.

Oysterlings in a mossy bed
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Strawberry bush fruit

Strawberry bush fruit
Fruit ripening on the same strawberry tree or bush as the flowers featured a couple of days ago. The flowers appear late in the year, at the same time as the fruits formed from last year’s fertilized flowers.
Strawberry bush fruit
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Wrinkled club fungus returns

Wrinkled club fungus returns

Wrinkled club fungus, barely standing proud of the short grass of a mossy front lawn. The fungus comes back every year at around this time to the same patch of lawn.

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Strawberry bush flowers

Strawberry bush flowers

Flowers on a strawberry tree a few days ago. Actually a bush rather than a full-grown tree, so the foliage was conveniently at body height.

Strawberry bush flowers
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Trooping crumblecaps on a pavement

Trooping crumblecap

Tiny mushrooms which appear as a crowd, and have gone within a day or two once they have shed their spores. They may be less than an inch high, but these trooping crumblecaps force their way up through the tarmac of a pavement.

They produce at least one crop a year, usually more if the conditions are right. Each time, they raise a bigger gap in the tarmac.