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Very quick evening walk. Was getting dark for photography but managed a few shots. The mushrooms were abundant, you couldn't walk a few feet without finding something. This is going to be a bumper year and I'm hoping for record amounts of Ceps.

Amanita Citrina- False Death Cap
Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: September Time: Evening Diameter: 4cm Height: 8cm Terrain: Pinewoods Substrate: Soil Comments: First find this year of this species. There were 4 of them growing fairly close together.
Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: September Time: Evening Diameter: 4cm Height: 8cm Terrain: Pinewoods Substrate: Soil Comments:
Picture Type: Close-up

Amanita Rubescens- The Blusher
Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: September Time: Evening Diameter: 5cm Height: 6cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Leaf litter Comments: This species is always abundant in this forest.
Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: September Time: Evening Diameter: 5cm Height: 6cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Leaf litter Comments: Yet another picture of this common species.
Picture Type: Volva

Paxillus Involutus- Brown Roll-rim
Picture Type: Cap close-up		Notes Month: September Time: Evening Diameter: 10cm Height: 5cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Leaf litter Comments: Very large specimen of this poisonous species

Russula Claroflava- Yellow Swamp Russula
Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: September Time: Evening Diameter: 3cm Height: 4cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Leaf litter Comments: Another colourful find, there were several others but the light was failing and this was the only shot that came out.

Xerocomus Badius- Bay Bolete
Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: September Time: Evening Diameter: 3cm Height: 6cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Leaf litter Comments: Not the best of shots due to the bad light but I wanted to put it in due to the interesting deformation of the cap.

Boletus Erythropus- Dotted-Stemmed Bolete
Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: September Time: Evening Diameter: 2cm Height: 3cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Leaf litter Comments: There were several of these in the clearing all very immature.The way the flesh blues when you expose it is quite amazing. It happens over a period of about 2 seconds going from yellow to cornflower blue.
Picture Type: Section showing blue flesh
Picture Type: Side view showing base of stipe
Picture Type: Pores showing dark blue bruise
Picture Type: Cap section		Notes Month: September Time: Evening Diameter: 2cm Height: 3cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Leaf litter Comments: I took this picture for effect. I sectioned the cap, leaving the stipe intact to show the amazing contrast of the red stipe against the cornflower blue flesh.

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