Trooping funnels are mushrooms which tend to be found in grass or leaf litter in clearings, here the lawn in front of a block of flats.
The cap starts off pointed. As it expands, the rim is raised. Eventually it becomes funnel shaped.
As the name implies, they are normally found in groups.
Decorative berries on a dogwood shrub in a front garden: a dense cluster of snow white berries tipped purple, growing on a red stem.
This shrub had variegated green leaves.
Coral spot is a common fungus which can be found on dead or dying wood, or branches which are dying back on living trees.
These were on a bough overhanging the stile from the Railway Walk onto the White Oak Drive housing estate.
Collared earth stars belong to a genus of fungi which spread their spores through a hole in the top of the fruiting body. The spores get their energy from raindrops falling on the fungus.
Collared earth stars are uncommon: other types of earth star are even less common.
These two were the largest and most accessible of a group which were growing near the former Compton station on the Smestow Valley Railway Walk.
Sweet chestnut with its showing through its spiky outer covering, lying where it fell among the leaf litter in the woods at Northycote Farm.
The downstream of the two pools the Penk flows through as it heads across the Perton estate.
Mushrooms growing through a thick carpet of moss which was covering a fallen tree trunk.
Candlesnuff fungus, also called stagshorn, is a common fungus found on dead wood including tree stumps from autumn and through to winter.
These were growing at the edge of the Railway Walk as it passed through Compton.
Three views of a large cluster of small puffballs which were growing in the churchyard in Donington, Shropshire.
The church tower is just visible, out of focus, in the first picture.
Lichens grow on many surfaces, as long as they can get enough moisture and the air is clean enough. But I never previously noticed any growing on moss.
This miniature ecology was on the wall of the churchyard at Penkridge.
The Waxcaps now look completely black …
or are well on the way to doing so.
They are also more ragged and battered.
In contrast with the mushrooms in the previous post, these Waxcaps are further along the process of losing their yellow.
