Fungi are here!

Ochre Brittlegill, Russula ochroleuca. Emmetts Gardens, 14 September 2014.

 Fungi are starting to turn up in the woods again.  These were out a month ago.  Russulas are common woodland toadstools, usually with interesting colours.  This one is easy to find.  Russulas are often called Brittlegills because if you rub the gills, they break up.

Coral Brittlegill, Russula velenovskyi.  Emmetts Gardens, 14 September 2014.

You can just see on this one that the cap colour extends down the outer edges of the gills.

Russula cyanoxantha, Charcoal Burner.  Oldbury Hill, 27 September 2014.

 This one has a variable cap colour and, to add some unnecessary confusion, it has gills which are not brittle.

Charcoal Burner, Russula cyanoxantha.  Hayes Common, 17 September 2014.

I'm pretty sure that this, found elsewhere a little earlier, is the same species.

Russula fellea, Geranium Brittlegill.  Oldbury Hill, 27 September 2014.

This one, though superficially similar to the Ochre Brittlegill, has a yellowish tint to its stipe, and a smell similar  to geranium leaves.  Smell is important when identifying fungi. 

More fungi will certainly follow, if not in the very next post then in later ones.