Fungus, Bantock Park. There’s a hole in the centre for a nozzle where the spores come out, with traces of dark spores around it.
But the structure of the surface is more complex than earthballs, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to to expand to form a star.
Pictures taken over three consecutive days to show how it developed, or rather how little it developed.
Bright red autumn leaves on a cherry tree in Bantock Park, seen on an overcast day and in bright sunlight.
Starlings on an electricity pylon by the Bridgnorth road at Trescott.
Honey fungus, very common, and a very common cause of the death of trees.
Bright red on the caps of a pair of fly agaric mushrooms under a hedge in Bantock Park.
Bright red flower on a poppy blooming in October. Growing by a verge in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve, Newbridge.
