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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 18h

A little late for #mushroommonday but I’m so excited to see this on a little foray after work! I think it’s the Waxcap Facepainter, Metarhizium marquandii. Growing on the gills of a Snowy Waxcap. #Fungi #fungifriends 🍄 📸

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snek @snek.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

little sketch dump

A rough pen and ink sketch of a mushroom showing its gills and flat top

A pen and ink sketch of a broken, upturned mushroom, showing its gills and stalk, with some details on the stalk where it's turning from white to darker

A pen and ink sketch of a daisy, with its petals starting to wilt and droop away from the middle part

Two pen and ink sketches, a close up of pixie cup lichen (which looks like long stems with tiny cups on the ends) and a mushroom with a broken stem and some broken pieces around the edge

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, published in three volumes between 1797 and 1809.

llustration is a detailed scientific illustration of a type of cup fungus, specifically identified by the text as Peziza coccinea (now known as Sarcoscypha coccinea or the scarlet elfcup) and Peziza epidendra. The illustration shows several specimens of the fungus at different stages of growth and from various angles. The fungi are depicted with vibrant red interiors and white exteriors, growing on a piece of dead wood.

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Assorted ferns and Ivy emerging from a cellar grating in a #BuryStEdmunds street. #FernFriday #Suffolk

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anthophiledreams.bsky.social @anthophiledreams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Any editors out there, or botanical academics?!

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 17/09/2026

Whether you're a geological enthusiast, researcher, or just curious about your area, BGS offers a suite of interactive mapping tools that allow you to: 🪨 Explore bedrock and superficial geology 🗺️ Access onshore and marine datasets 🌱 Track soil types and groundwater www.bgs.ac.uk/geological-d...

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This September evening in the Adur Valley, Sussex. Sound on for geese.

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British Mycological Society @handle.invalid · 15/09/2026

On the cover of September's Field Mycology: a Violet Coral fungus growing in old pasture at Hardcastle Crags, West Yorkshire. Read online to find out how the #WaxcapWatch survey has expanded our knowledge of Violet Coral distribution. 👉 fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

Front cover of the September 2026 issue of 'Field Mycology' journal, with a photo of Violet Coral fungus growing in grass by Jennie Smith.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The September issue of Field Mycology is out now! ▶️ doi.org/10.63482/a2p... The editorial finds me pondering phoenicoid fungi - and wondering what the fungi of fire sites could tell us about nature's capacity to recover.

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Vol. 27 No. 3 (2026): Field Mycology - September 2026 | Field Mycology

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Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Over the past decade, a toxic fungus that destroys cheese rinds has been popping up in cheese caves throughout New England. In a new paper from my lab, we tried to better understand this emerging threat to New England's artisan cheese industry. doi.org/10.1128/aem....

Cheese rinds contaminated with Aspergillus westerdijkiae

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Mark Mallalieu @mallalieum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A set of Sussex Bird Reports since 1968 is available at no cost. Let me know if you would like to have them. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

'Japanese Lanterns.' (1930) During the interwar years, Eric Slater borrowed motifs from the Ukiyo-e masters of woodblock printing Hokusai and Hiroshige, and finessed them for his own means; the final flowering of a tradition of British printmaking until a revival in the 1980s.

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hips, haws, nuts and berries! It’s starting to look a bit autumnal out there! So this week’s challenge is #fruits! Share your finds of wild & naturalised fruits for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy fruit hunting! ☺️🍒

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Autumn is just around the corner and now that it's finally rained, so are the mushrooms. I've added 'So Mushroom' card sets & prints to my shop. CARPE FUNGUM! 🍄 www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Bern...

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Blackberries painted with blackberries.

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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Four-spotted Footman moths Lithosia quadra caught at light during the Life on the Edge South Devon National Landscape moth event at Mothecombe, Devon yesterday

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British Mycological Society @handle.invalid · 20/08/2026

In the July issue of #FieldMycology, Harry C. Evans looks back at more than two centuries of records of entomopathogenic fungi in the British Isles and asks what we might be missing. Read the article, online and open access: fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... #Mycology #Fungi #Insects #Biodiversity

Photo of a silver-grey moth with yellow-cream coloured fungal fruitbodies protruding vertically from its surface. Akanthomyces sp. indet. on the Antler moth (Cerapteryx graminis). Credit: Harry C. Evans.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

6th August 2026 Tonight's walk home.

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British Mycological Society @handle.invalid · 14/07/2026

Out now: Field Mycology July 2026.

Front cover of the BMS journal 'Field Mycology', July 2026, with a photo of a Stinkhorn fungus by Barry Webb.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Latest issue of Field Mycology is out: ▶️ fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... A fine array of fascinating funguses. "Not enough toadstools", according to one reviewer. I say, let all the fungi have their turn! (Happy to receive submissions of toadstool-based articles for next issue.)

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Field Mycology

Field Mycology, a British Mycological Society publication

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just arrived from @summerfieldbooks.com: "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes." Looks good but we now need some rain, so I can try it out. (I may have a long wait...) #MycoBookClub #Fungi #FungiFriends

"Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" - cover.

"Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" - one of the colour wheels.

"Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" - one of the keys.

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old wildlife illustrations @wildlife.nathan.fun · 06/07/2026

Tabulae phytographicae, Turici, Impensis J.H. Fuessli, 1795-1804. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/580152… (source: biodiversitylibrary.org/page/580152…) #nature #illustration #art

Tabulae phytographicae, Turici, Impensis J.H. Fuessli, 1795-1804.
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58015297�

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Barry Yates @rxnature.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Help please. Does anyone know what this is floating on a Sussex pond amongst Frogbit.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A page with engraved fungi & plant illustrations colored by hand from my copy of “Termini botanici Iconibus Illustrati : oder, Botanische Kunstsprache durch Abbildungen erläutert”, by German botanist Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, published in 1799. 🌱 🍄 🐡 📕

A large page of laid paper with colored illustrations of various plant and fungi species.

#sciart #fungifriends #fungus #fungi #c18th #botany #booksky

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘By the Mere’ Artist: CFTunnicliffe

A scraper board illustration of a large number of swallows and swifts darting over a small tree-ringed lake on a warm summers day

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

'Boundaries', Maggie Vandewalle, watercolour.

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Dr Astrid Biddle @astridbiddle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

@ilichenmoss2.bsky.social George Greiff in the BBC News headlines on Sunday morning. A fantastic discovery, and hopefully a way to moderate invasive (INNS) Campylopus introflexus (Heath Star Moss). Well deserved recognition for some very interesting bryological work. 🎉🙌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Killer fungus discovered that destroys UK invasive plant

A newly discovered species raises hope that some native British habitats could be restored.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Seen near Sloane Square: This year's Mushroom book from Taschen. The recipe focus isn't to my taste, but the first half looks interesting and beautifully illustrated. It even has a couple of pages on Otto Marseus van Schrieck, 'The Snuffler'. #MycoBookClub

A shop window with a book called Mushroom piled high, with a close-up of Agaricus bisporus on the cover.

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

A display of diseased potatoes mounted in the wall, each in a little coffin

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Torda Varga @vtorda.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📝We’ve finished the first draft of our Ganoderma lucidum “origin” article: “A historical specimen of False Lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum) resolves a 245-year-old confusion within an important medicinal mushroom group.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Woken up but the sound of a Great Spotted Woodpecker drilling into the roof of our bungalow. Reckon I heard one of the tiles crack. Not cool, Woody.

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

An embroidery hoop containing an aerial view embroidered landscape. It depicts the BARC in Maryland with green and brown field plots and a building area in the bottom right corner.

A zoomed-in angled view of an aerial embroidery. It shows field plots and buildings.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Wren’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

The wren is perched on a piece of lichen-covered rock looking curiously at the viewer

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

One to add to the canon of 'mushrooms in art'.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Very nice little exhibition at Haslemere Museum, on the museum's origins. Including some delightful memorabilia for E.W. Swanton fans.

A display photo in sepia of an old library. Caption reads: The Museum Library. This image shows the Library at the East Street museum in October 1912. Once known as the Book Museum, it was likely the earliest library in Haslemere. Seven long tables and six bookshelves lined the room, while three warm-air stoves kept the space dry and welcoming for visitors. Framed paintings adorned the walls on every side, creating an atmosphere where art and knowledge met.

An old photo of Mr E. W. Swanton who became the Museum's first curator, in 1897. He retired in 1948. He is pictured in a woolen suit next to some kind of brass telescope contraption.

A vintage printed booklet with E. W. Swanton's signature on the front in a flowing hand. Booklet is titled Haslemere Educational Museum EXAMINATION PAPERS.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

People waste their time on which identically bitter IPA is better, when they could be enjoying the infinite variety of good apples.

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Peter Braubach @peterbraubach.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Has anyone access to Mycologia Memoirs? I am looking for the species descriptions of #AquaticHyphomycetes: Matsush. Mycol. Mem. 7: 70 (1993) and Matsush. Mycol. Mem. 2: 19 (1981). Somehow it seems that nobody ever bought these or if so threw them out long ago. #Mycobookclub.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

School book belonging to a 12-year-old. Village near Tolosa, Basque Country, 1966. "In school I must not speak Basque" 1,000 (one thousand) lines. Via @KikeAmonarriz. And a recent picture of the boy Lontxo Zubeldia via Naiz. Should be a museum exhibit on the realities of Francoism.

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Kel | Mossy Stone Media @mossystonemedia.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Catching up on this lovely idea, since I'm eternally behind on posting my stuff on bluesky. Day 1. Hello! #repostyourart

A greyscale illustration of a person in a mushroom shirt laying in a much-larger landscape of mosses, mushrooms, and orchids.

Text:
Zinester introduction
Hi, I'm Kel (they/any)!
Roots: 6 years Washington, 22 years Alaska, 8 years Washington
Education: Natural resources management, journalism, public radio
Experience: Audio, video, and copy editing
Zine topics: Natural history, creature design, storytelling, fun facts, service industry, cats
Special interests: Fungi, moss, tundra, Alaska, climate change, place-based knowledge
Quote: "I have approximate knowledge of many things." —Demon Cat (Adventure Time)

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Cuckoo Flower, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Good morning - I hope you slept like a bird's-foot-trefoil-stuffed dingy skipper - I'm starting with 'Spirit of the Southern', Harry Stevens, acrylic on canvas, 1969. Have a splendid day.

A Harry Stevens painting for British Rail, a Modernist depiction of a train going over a viaduct in rolling downs - to the right a chalk cliff and sea.

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The current status of bryophyte recording in Sussex. 133 000 records. Few areas are now totally unrecorded, but there is still a fair bit of work to do. The earliest records date from about 1700, but most are from the late 1980s onwards 1/2 @bbsbryology.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

A map of the county of Sussex in the south of England, showing the number of different species of bryophytes recorded in each tetrad (2 by 2 kilometre square). There are a few totally unrecorded on the south-western coastal areas, in parts of mid-Sussex, and in the far east of the county. Those areas are also generally under-recorded and need more work. On the coastal areas and in the low Weald, a well-recorded tetrad may have just 40 to 50 different species, but up in the high Weald, 80 or more is more normal. Some tetrads in that area (and on the north slope of the South Downs) may have 130 or more different species

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Here they are (Zygothrica sp) going at it to defend their mushroom kingdom. El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Exciting fungi book news: Ascomycete.org will publish the first volume of a series of books titled Pézizomycètes d'Europe this year. Edited by Nicolas Van Vooren, with contributions from specialists from several countries #MycoBookClub #FungiFriends

Book cover: Pézizomycètes d'Europe with a macro photo of a small fungus with asci and spores visible

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old wildlife illustrations @wildlife.nathan.fun · 13/04/2026

Edible and poisonous mushrooms: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894. (source: biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2905285) #nature #illustration #art

Edible and poisonous mushrooms:
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

How I plan to enter the weekend in true 1660s style. #weekendsky

An ape with a feathered hat, sitting at a table, with a glas of wine in his hand. The image is from the 1660s.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

a question for #Botany Bluesky: is there a definitive list of sub-shrubs native to Britain? Thanks

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