Chris Mattison / Pores on the underside of the cap of a Suede bolete fungus (Boletus subtomentosus) Peak District, Derbyshire, UK, October. Image taken using digital focus-stacking.

Adrian Davies / Common earthball fungus (Scleroderma citrina). Mature specimens releasing spores, seen as black mass inside ball. Surrey, UK, October.

Alex Hyde / Developing Puff ball (Calostoma sp) fruiting body, Maliau Basin, Sabah, Borneo.

Chris Mattison / Suede bolete (Boletus subtomentosus) Gait Barrows, Lancashire, UK. October.

MYN / Dirk Funhoff / Red-capped scaber stalk fungi (Leccinum aurantiacum), Büchelberg, Pfalz, Germany. September. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Nick Upton / Cep / Penny bun fungus (Boletus edulis) growing in deciduous woodland, GWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, September.

Andy Sands / Brown rollrim fungus (Paxillus involutus) common fungi with a distinctive rolled edge to the rim of the cap, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, December. Focus stacked image

Andy Sands / Brown birch bolete fungus (Leccinum scabrum) growing from forest floor, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, November . Focus stacked image

Matthew Maran / Red cracking bolete fungus (Boletus chrysenteron) pulled out from the ground, Hampstead Heath, London, England, UK. October.

Andres M. Dominguez / Penny bun / Cep mushroom (Boletus edulis) Los Alcornocales Natural park, Cortes de la Frontera, southern Spain, November.

Adrian Davies / Brown birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) in autumn, Sussex, England, UK. November.

Adrian Davies / Brown birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) in autumn, Sussex, England, UK. November.