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Japanese-Lantern

Japanese-Lantern

Japanese or Chinese lantern – a garden I pass regularly has a border of them fronting the pavement. Bright colour every autumn.

Japanese-Lantern

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Southern hawker dragonfly, flying

Southern hawker dragonfly, flying

Finally, after many, many photos which just included a vague blue blur, these shots of a southern hawker dragonfly flying fast actually have a recognisable subject.

Southern hawker dragonfly, flying

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Bright red vibernum berries

Bright red vibernum berries

Vibernum (guelder rose) berries, bright red and glossy. These on a bush at the back of Compton Lock.

Bright red vibernum berries

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Autumn / winter fungi: sulfur tuft

Autumn / winter fungi: sulfur tuft

Sulfur tuft, not just autumn and winter fungi – common right through from early spring to the first hard frost.

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Colours of autumn: robin’s pincushion red

Colours of autumn: robin's pincushion

Found decorating wild rose bushes in the autumn, robin’s pincushions are galls created by a robin’s pincusion gall wasp laying an egg in the twig of the bush. I assume the red of the gall is the same pigment as in the skin of the ripe rose hips, visible out of focus in these pictures.

Colours of autumn: robin's pincushion

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Autumn fungi: Japanese umbrellas in short grass

Autumn fungi: Japanese umbrellas

Delicate-looking mushrooms found in short grass, sometimes called Japanese umbrellas.

Autumn fungi: Japanese umbrellas