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Rockport Park, Janesville, Wisconsin (USA)
This is a cluster of new leaves on a (tentatively identified) bottle brush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora) shrub. The bracts spawning leaves are sorta like a magnolia, I guess. Far as I know, the two are unrelated. We saw them in two separate locations in the large forest at Rockport Park in Janesville, Wisconsin (USA). No idea what they were doing so far north. It'll be interesting to see if they develop pyramidal flower clusters like a regular buckeye. They're apparently supposed to flower in August.
Moss growing over a wood mushroom looks like a little forest of pine trees.
