The warm, damp lanes of Lochaber were determined to make me feel welcome by providing a wealth of fungi along their verges. One feature of these fungi was that many were large....
....like this fly agaric - though it was not the largest.
This is a bolete, perhaps the orange birch bolete or slippery jack, while....
....I have no idea what this species is, catching my eye because so many were crowded onto one rotten log.
And this I liked for its delicacy, and for he rich green of the mossy bed it had chosen to grow on.
One particular thing was noticeable: the fungi hadn't been eaten by snails and slugs, not in the way that our local one are. Which leads us to wonder what it is about Lochaber fungi that the molluscs don't like.
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