Interesting plants and spiders

Thunbergia and impatiens among our other "exotic" plants grow wild in the forests and countryside here.  Other stuff grows to extremes.  A few examples:

 Even the biggest of these mushrooms was less than a centimeter in diameter.  Fairy mushrooms.  

 This fungus (?) was almost transparent -- the clump was about 2 inches long.

 This beautiful limb-full was of foamy white, flowery fungus.  The only batch of it we saw on a 4-hour hike.  

It's been my year for four-leaf clovers -- I found one in Central Park, along Salt Creek Trail, and another in Maple Park this year.  When one's there, there is often another, occasionally three.  I was beyond surprised to see this huge patch, and realize the ground was covered in them.  But it's not actually clover.

On a bird hike in the wee hours today, we happened across these spider webs, 

which were about 6-10 inches in diameter.   

What was especially interesting was that the webs were so different from anything I've seen in North America -- they weren't round, orb-based, but appear to have been woven like fabric.  I have no idea how it is accomplished.