After the Rain

Now the long dry spell is over more typical signs of autumn should be visible. Mushrooms have been around but since yesterday's rain we can expect to see more of them. The grasslands at the top are home to a number of waxcaps. Some of these are easy to identify but a lot give rise to problems. For instance this one has a bright yellow cap but its stem is white. It may look very different in a few days although the colours should stay the same.There's nothing like it in Roger Phillips' "Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe" claiming to be "the most comprehensively illustrated book on the subject".

He does say there are 63 waxcaps in Britain - in the book there are photos of 23 of them.