Primary Fungi

The approach road to the local primary school runs through carefully-mown lawn but below this, to the right of this picture, under the deep shade of some conifers, there's a garden of fungi. It only extends a few metres and we wouldn't have noticed it had not one of the fungi been....

....a rather fine specimen of fly agaric the size of a small plate. Near it are....

....several more fly agarics but at the button-like stage.

It seems that fungi like to stick together for, with only a brief search, three more species were found within a few metres, including a white fungus and....

....one of the small boletes with a stalk almost as large as its cap. 

The last was a rather unusual fungus, a bolete with stunning, chestnut-coloured pores and matching pale yellow cap and stalk. It may be a lurid bolete but, as with all my identifications, this is little more than a guess.

Last Thursday I wrote about a similar gathering of fungi near the pedestrian gate into our local hospital's grounds - see post here. I found the same three species gathered there today but they had been joined by a fourth....

....which may be a funnel cap.

There must be good reason for four or more fungus species to be found in locations extending only to a few square metres.