It’s Autumn! I was just wandering around the park without a camera and found the a few odds and ends, so took them home.

This Russula was growing close to a large Beech and I’ve tentatively identified it as Olive Brittlegill. I could easily be wrong. It’s a sort of lilac-brown, not olive coloured, but colour can be misleading with Russulas and it was growing under a beech. There’s several Russulas that are allied with beech trees and this seems the most likely, although it is uncommon. The photo seems to show cross-connections between the gills (which I didn’t notice at the time) and Olive Brittlegill has these near the stem. The book says it’s very similar to Russula alutacea and they’re both edible, but my id was much too shaky for munching.

There were three smallish Agricus mushrooms growing near a Horse Chestnut. Definitely some species of Agricus but I can’t decide which. Two of them were quite maggoty but the last was young and fresh

There’s a small patch in the park where these large Horse Mushrooms always come up, and there were lots this year. Unfortunately it’s right next to a busy footpath so they nearly always get kicked over before they can mature. But I took this one home and had a very tasty snack.