Wolves Wild

The acers in West Park keep getting ever more vivid, and each time I wander round the park I seem to notice another cluster of them.

It really does look very like pieces of range peel which have been left as litter. The small pale yellow object on the fungus above is a tiny insect.

This fungus appears in the same spot, very near the Conservatory in West Park, every autumn.

This oak tree was in the same clump of trees as yesterday’s sycamore in Bantock Park. The colours are more muted.

Rich colours of autumn on these trees in Bantock Park.

These trees by the edge of the paddling pool on Tettenhall Upper Green were pictured at the end of October.

Either red cracking or perhaps the sepia bolete

The colours of this fallen leaf were further muted by a coating of frost on a recent morning.

Related to the cultivated oyster fungus, which is whiter.

This one was growing on the top of a tree stump by the Bridgnorth Road. The base of the same trunk was covered in a swarm of honey fungus.

Scarlet berries against the dull green of the evergreen leaves. Yews are particularly long-lived, and often found in churchyards.

One of the characteristic fruits of autumn, and potent ingredient of home-fermented wine, the elderberries are a distinctive black fruit at the end of bright red stems.

One of the mushrooms with a reputation as good eating, but which is easily confused with poisonous Clitocybes.

According to the sources this is a common mushroom, but the pictured specimen was a first for me.

This fungus is very variable in form. It is more usually found towards the base of tree trunks, where it is invariably fatal for the tree.