I found this bolete fungus thriving in the strawberry bed at our previous house, the main fruiting body having two smaller ones at its base. This picture was taken on 17th October but by..
....the 21st it had grown considerably, possibly at the expense of the two small ones which had disappeared.
When I inspected it today it was in full bloom - if that's what fungi do - but it, like almost all of the local fungi this year, was being....
....attacked by what, from its wandering track, was either a slug or a snail.
As a bolete it lacks gills, instead the cap having a foam-like internal structure. Most boletes are edible, if not very exciting eating, but this one might be an exception, perhaps gaining some flavour from the surrounding strawberry plants.
I hesitate to identify it more closely but it might be one of the wonderfully named penny buns.
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