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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I wouldnt stop you! Happy new year to you too!

Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Although rare in the south of the uk I was delighted to find chrysomphalina grossula, green navel, for the second time this year in Bernwood forest. Both times on old ,mossy stumps, probably spruce. #fungifriends #mycology #naturephotography

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Bernwood Forest gave me a chonky clump of oysters for Christmas #fungifriends #mycology #shrooms

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Supposed to be quite common, but the orange peel fungus, aleuria aurantia has eluded me until today. Oxford park #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Hi Jojo, you seem like a kindred spirit! I have found these beauties a few times around Oxford but you certainly found a gorgeous example. You might like this mini Volvariella hypopithys or pusilla I found this year on grass, only 2/3cm cap!

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Snap! From yesterday, they are lovely!

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I found some daisy earth stars last week, geastrum floriforme. It took ages for me to distinguish between them and the barometers, but your picture perfectly shows the rip in the spore sac as opposed to the raised hole in the daisies🧐

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I’m now convinced it is floriforme due to the raised hole more evident in one of 5 new ones found today

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Chuffed to find this small, unusual earth star in Oxford park. Either geastrum floriforme, daisy earth star, or astraeus hygrometricus ,barometer earth star. Due to differing thickness in the flesh, the rays fold over to protect the spore sac as it dries. #fungifriends #mycology

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Are you a very hungry person?😆

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Plicaturopsis crispa, crimped gill, Bernwood, uk #mycology #fungifriends

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It looks edible but sadly isn’t!

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Blusher then, it should bruise pink where damaged

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Lovely! I think that may be a blusher, the flecks on the top aren’t white enough for pantherina. Panthers have a gutter around the top of the volva. Does the annulus ( ring) have striations ?

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Fuligo septica, Bernwood. Not an uncommon find but there was something sumptuous about this one. #fungifriends #slimemouldsunday #myxos #bernwood

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Sorry no! I think a blusher, this one a panther

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Lots of panther caps, blushers and some franchetii in the same area of Bernwood #fungifriends #shrooms #bernwood

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Spotted my first ever deaths head hawkmoth yesterday by the Cherwell in Oxford #mothing #hawkmoth #uknature #inverts #moths

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Pluteus species all loving the decaying elm trees in Bernwood, cervinus, chrysophlebius, umbrosus and salicinus

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I found 3 more there ,one of which was coming from the growing point of pickerel weed, pontederia cordata, I presume the rest were on decaying stems of the same

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Thank you Piotr, yes indeed it is. Someone did the microscope work and it is being sent for sequencing. There aren’t many uk records though probably pseudo rare!

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Male sharp tailed bee,Coelyoxys sp hanging about on my bee hotel. They are kleptoparasites of leaf cutter bees, megachile sp and hairy footed flower bees both of which use the hotel #invertebrates #kleptoparasites #uknature #beehotels #insects #oxfordwildlife #macro

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Weird! While clearing blanket weed from an ornamental pond ,I came across three of these small capped mushrooms growing on pondweed or something on the water surface. Nobody seems to be able to id for certain so I will try to collect one for further study, Oxford #mycology #fungifriends #ukwildlife

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Not rare but always lovely : 6 spot burnet #MothMatters

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Beautiful red belted clearwing moth ,Oxford #TeamMoth

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A lovely red- belted clearwing moth came to visit my Oxfordshire home, #moths #Oxford wildlife #clearwing #entomology #insects

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

There are over 6000 species of parasitic wasp in the uk, very little is known about many of them, which is strangely pleasing to me! This is one of them from my Oxford garden , any help iding much appreciated #entomology #macro #parasiticwasps #uknature #inverts

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This was my first one , last month, a confusingly worn specimen , Oxford

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Chris Grimbly @chrishroom.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I’m wondering whether they are going to increase their population as daldinia concentrica seem to like all the dead and dying ash trees

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