Glistening inkcaps, usually grow on clumps on wood – tree stumps or underground deadwood. There were just a few on a mossy stump in Himley Plantation.
Mycena species, Himley Plantation
Mycenae are a genus of mushrooms where it is often difficult to identify individual species. They are small, have a thin, fragile stem, and are usually pale with a conical cap. Several different mycena species are included in these pictures, taken on a recent visit to the Woodland Trust’s Himley Plantation.
Autumnal maple, Himley
Roadside maple on the edge of Himley village, at the end of last month when its leaves were just beginning to develop the bright reds and yellows of autumn.
Funnel caps after rain, Himley Plantation
The damp but still fairly warm weather means fresh crops of fungi. A recent brisk walk around the Woodland Trust’s Himley Plantation produced a species count in double figures. A patch of common funnel caps looked like they had only recently grown, though some had already been found by a hungry creature.
Ginger and green: lichen and liverwort, lock
Ginger coloured lichen above bright green liverwort, growing in a niche on the top of the wall of one of thetwenty-one locks of the Birmingham Canal.
Ginger: cat about
Ginger cat striding along a boat in the forecourt of the former Compton Boatyard, then pausing to clean itself.
