slippery

... now it is easy to see why this mushroom is called slippery. The woods are stuffed full of fungi, but what can we eat? 

dunironin

this is not what Princesses are supposed to be doing. Harriet goes on strike. 

stinkhorn

...at long last we have found a stinkhorn. We can always smell them but they are difficult to find 

late begonias

autumn in Luckett (Broadgate); it is almost November but the hanging baskets are still full of begonias in bloom

persicaria

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.