Andy Sands / Stocking webcap fungus (Cortinarius torvus), group of toadstools on woodland floor, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, October - Focus Stacked

Guy Edwardes / Laughing gym toadstools (Gymnopilus junonius), New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England, UK. September.

Robert Thompson / Bruising webcap mushroom (Cortinarius purpurascens) Annagarriff Wood NNR, Peatlands Park, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. November.

Nick Upton / Spectacular rustgill fungi (Gymnopilus junonius) emerging from a rotting treestump in deciduous woodland, LWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, October.

Andy Sands / Variable oysterling (Crepidotus variabilis) growing on dead twig, Hertfordshire, England, UK, October

Andy Sands / Variable webcap (Cortinarius anomalus) Buckinghamshire, England, UK, October. Focus stacked image

Andy Sands / Variable Oysterling (Crepidotus variabilis) group growing on end of dead log, Hertfordshire, England, UK, October . Focus stacked image

MYN / Marc Pihet / Violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus), composite of the fungus emerging, Maine-et-Loire, France, October, meetyourneighbours.net project

Andy Sands / Variable webcap (Cortinarius anomalus) England, UK, October . Focus stacked image

Pascal Pittorino / Laughing gym mushrooms (Gymnopilus spectabilis) growing on a tree trunk, Sainte Baume, Var, Provence, France, September

Nick Upton / Webcap (Cortinarius sp), GWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, October.

Nick Upton / Lilac fibrecap (Inocybe geophylla lilacina), poisonous mushrooms containing muscarine, GWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, October.