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Funnel cap mushrooms, Bantock Park

Funnel cap mushrooms, Bantock Park

Funnel cap mushrooms, their “funnels” holding water from the overnight rain. Growing just a few yards from a crop of fly agaric toadstools in Bantock Park.

Funnel cap mushrooms, Bantock Park

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Green, yellow, brown: autumnal oak leaves, Bantock Park

Green, yellow, brown: autumnal oak leaves, Bantock Park

Close-up of some of the leaves of an oak tree on the edge of Bantock Park, with autumn colour change from green to yellows and browns.

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Purple: verbena flowers, Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth

Purple: verbena flowers

Flowers on one of the long thin stalks of a verbena, in one of the flowerbeds in the same park in the Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth
as the fungi in the previous post.

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Shrivelled earthstar fungus, Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth

Shrivelled earthstar fungus, Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth

Collared earthstar fungi growing in one of the beds at the Castle Grounds Park, Bridgnorth, looking decidedly shrivelled. A week earlier they had looked like this.

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Fly agaric among bamboo stubble, Chapel Ash roundabout

Fly agaric among bamboo stubble, Chapel Ash roundabout

Fly agaric mushrooms appear most autumns in one of the planting areas by the ring road Chapel Ash roundabout. This year the bamboo, the official occupant, has been trimmed to a stubble a few inches high. The red and white fungi stand out more clearly than in previous years.xxx

Fly agaric mushrooms appear most autumns in one of the planting areas by the ring road Chapel Ash roundabout. This year the bamboo, the official occupant, has been trimmed to a stubble a few inches high. The red and white fungi stand out more clearly than in previous years.

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Red, green: autumnal acer leaves, West Park

Red, green: autumnal acer leaves, West Park

Green leaf of a Japanese acer in West Park, just beginning to turn an autumnal red in patches.