In a few weeks these seeds will be surrounded by white feathery strands which give the climber its name: old man’s beard.
Oysterlings in a mossy bed
Tiny mushrooms growing in a bed of moss. They are small moss oysterlings.
Strawberry bush fruit
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.
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.
Trooping crumblecaps on a pavement
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.