Grisettes are a group of gilled mushroom species with furrows round the upper edge of the cap duplicating the gills below. When fresh there is a ring around the stem. Related species are more strongly coloured (tawny grisette and orange grisette) but this is the grey one which gives its name to the group.
Dandelion in mid-November with the last few of the seeds of the “clock” still clinging on.
Like the birch boletes featured in a post yesterday, blushing boletes appear in autumn under birch trees. They look not dissimilar, the less common blushing bolete being a darker brown. Comparisons are helped when mushrooms of the two species are growing fairly near to one another, as was the case on the walk when these pictures were taken.
Ornamental solanacea, a garden plant related to nightshades, tomatoes and potatoes, possibly Brazilian nightshade. Its large glossy red berries in a flower bed by the entrance lodge to Tettenhall College.
Birch boletes, the same species of mushroom featured in a post yesterday, and also growing under birch trees in Bantock Park. These had only emerged in the past day or two. The caps were still domed, or only just starting to spread.
Autumn yellows and browns on one of the oak trees in Bantock Park. The leaves showing these colours were much larger than those of either of the native oak species.
Birch boletes are a common autumn mushroom which grow in association with birch trees. The underside of the cap has pores rather than gills, a feature of all types of boletes.
Birch and conifer woodland at the end of last month, with most leaves still on the trees and just beginning to change colour.
Leaves of a maple in a garden hedge, showing a range of rich, vivid autumn colours.
Yellow stagshorn is a common fungus which grows on wood, sometimes on deeply buried roots. It feels slimy when damp, but more orange than yellow when dry, as here.
Yellow cracked boletes (also know as suede boletes or brown and yellow boletes) growing on a grassy bank under birch and conifer, overlooking the ring road.
Couple of narrowboats moored at Brewood. A pair of dogs wandering between the backs of the two boats seemed to start and stop barking in unison at random intervals.