slippery jack

almost every mushroom that I find has a small bite out of its cap, is there a mad mushroom taster in the parish? This is (probably; the guide books are always a bit vague) slippery jack because the surface is very slimy (glutinous in the jargon) and has distinctly yellowish flesh growing in the pine plantations at Kelly Bray. Edible, perhaps. I think that I am a mycophobic lurcher and must therefore be descended from a long line of anglosaxon hounds.

fuchsia

this elegant fuchsia was flowering in Kelly Bray woods, it is not f. magellanica found in the wild (but not native?) and must be an escapee. It has been suggested recently that about one-quarter of plants sold to ornamental gardeners since the 1800s have escaped, and 30 per cent of these are firmly established in the English countryside.

golden waxcaps

 

moss mushrooms

they are springing up all over the place 

they're back

.... a little joie de vivre to celebrate a walk in the woods. 

parasols

more trouble with fungi. This looks like a Saxon war shield from above. The more we look in mushroom and fungi books the more confused we get. It might be an agaric, the gills are pink ... the ring is , well, ringy. Can we eat it? You try first.