Birch brittlegills are paler and pinker than the purple brittlegills featured in the previous post. These were growing just a couple of trees away from the purple ones in Bantock Park.
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Purple brittlegills, Bantock Park
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Fatsia coming into flower
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Grisette, Castlecroft
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Autumn colours: robin’s pincushion gall
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Landscape with a pair of swans taking off
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Earthstars hiding behind nettles
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Keep on pushing through
Clump of mushrooms, probably glistening inkcaps, forcing their way through the tarmac of a pavement.
This is the fourth successive autumn the fungi have emerged from the originally newly-laid surface, enlarging their escape hole every year as they do so.
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Autumn colours: Japanese acers, West Park
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Autumn colours: Japanese acer, Bantock Park
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Two little piggies
Two of this year’s litter of Gloucester Old Spot piglets at Northycote Farm, searching for something to eat.
Some of the piglets from previous years feature in these posts.
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Red leaves, yellow fungus
The red of fallen leaves from the tree in the the previous post contrast with the yellow of the honey fungus growing from the base of the tree.
Sadly, this is likely to mean the tree’s days are numbered, with white rot killing off its roots.
CORRECTION: fungus identified by Lukas Large as spectacular rustgills