Oxford Mail Camera Club members have been picking out mushrooms to match our latest theme fungi.

Colourful photos of mushrooms - some extremely rare - were sent in from locations around the county, including Bagley Wood near Oxford, where Simon Gannon took photos in semi-darkness.

As well as rare mushrooms there were photos of mushroom soup and mushrooms for sale in the supermarket.

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Regular contributor Bryan Robertson dressed up as a ‘fun guy’ next to a model of a mushroom and was a contender for photo of the week. But in the end we chose Jackie Brockis’s picture of a man enjoying his coffee outside a mushroom-shaped cafe.

Ms Brockis has identified the fungi the cafe is modelled on as ‘Amanita muscaria’.

Each week camera club members are given a theme and then post their photos on the club’s Facebook page. The next theme is ‘guess the object’.

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