Andy Sands / Slime mould (Cribraria aurantiaca) three maturing, green sporangia, circa 1.5mm tall, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. July. Focus stacked.

Nick Upton / Sea cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. oleracea) clump with maturing seed pods on limestone cliff top, Handfast Point, Dorset, UK. July.

Nigel Cattlin / Walnuts (Juglans regia) maturing green fruit on tree, Berkshire, UK. July.

Andy Sands / Slime mould (Enerthenema papillatum), around one millimeter tall, in red stage, maturing and drying. Buckinghamshire, England, UK. December. Focus Stacked.

Andy Sands / Two maturing groups of Chocolate tube slime mould (Stemonitis fusca) sporangia with snail (Gastropoda sp). Buckinghamshire, England, UK. July. Focus Stacked.

Nick Upton / Tall / Golden melilot (Melilotus altissimus) with maturing fruits, Kenfig National Nature Reserve, Glamorgan, Wales, UK, September.

Nigel Cattlin / Velvet leaf (Abutilon theophrasti) yellow flowering broad-leaved weed in a maturing Soybean (Glycine max) crop, Illinois, USA.

Nigel Cattlin / Maize eyespot (Kabatiella zeae) fungal disease infection and lesions on Maize / Corn (Zea mays) leaves on a maturing plant, Illinois, USA.

Nigel Cattlin / Rows of orange trees (Citrus sinensis) with green, maturing fruit in an orchard in the Low Veldt, Transvaal, South Africa, February

Nigel Cattlin / Rows of orange trees (Citrus sinensis) with green, maturing fruit in an orchard in the Low Veldt, Transvaal, South Africa, February

Nigel Cattlin / Maturing avocado fruit (Persea americana) hanging from long peduncles on the tree, Transvaal, South Africa, February

Nigel Cattlin / Maturing ears of sorghum, broom-corn / great millet (Sorghum bicolor) against a blue sky, November, Thailand