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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

L. azonites is one I've seen recently

David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On a quest for obscure taxa in Northumberland Epipactis tynensis and E. youngiana @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchid

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Found near Bristol on Thursday. The AI apps all said St Georges Mushrooms, yellow gills particularly looked different. Spore strongly amyloid and warty under. They proved to be Leucopaxillus tricolor potentially the 5th UK record? @allthingsfungi.bsky.social @britishmyology.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Always a highlight of a trip to the Alps Eritrichium nanum King of the Alps on mountains above Rifugio Viel Dal Pan with Lago di Fedaia in the valley below.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hmm, that strong koh reaction is very like ochroleuca?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

No, I mendax would be a bold call. Should be almost identical to lurida but yours looks quite different. One for sequencing.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Well that would be exciting. Very beautiful mushroom.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The one on the right looks like G. friesica (=G. densiflora var friesica)??

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A male Eucera! which are pretty scarce themselves

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

By this time of year the very common O. bicornis is finished flying, and largely visits fruit trees, so not much for it on Kenfig. The much more localised O. arulenta is a summer species that particularly likes dunes collecting pollen from Lotus. It is also a much more beautiful bee.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I don't see Osmia bicornis there, not Osmia aurulenta?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Amanita franchetii was a new one for me, North Somerset. Apparently often an early species @allthingsfungi.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Trip into Glous yesterday produced a couple of new plants for me. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Erodium manescavi Garden Storksbill thanks to @duncan-dine.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Ah, reminds me my Guaiac is well past shelf life. Have you pre-ordered new Russula book?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Maybe, spores right shape, was Salix repens close by?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Not one I've managed to ID yet, although supposed to be common? Does all micro, spore colour and chemical tests pan out?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Recent rain has encouraged Suillus granulatus Weeping Bolete to appear below a Pinus radiatus in Weston-s-Mare @allthingsfungi.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sad to see fakery and or misinfomationon bluesky, this is an Australian species, looks nothing like a Zosterops.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Many thanks to RoAM (Recorders of the Avalon Marshes) for instigating and facilitating this project. Funding from FCT (Fungi Conservation trust and BLS (British Lichen Society).

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Over the past 24 months I have been involved in extracting DNA from fungi for Sanger sequencing. It has been a very interesting, sometimes frustrating and difficult exercise but here are some of out better finds. @allthingsfungi.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Very nice, is this the peat-bog form, would love to see it, probably too late now this year?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Some recent highlights from a trip east Military, Orchis militaris, Lady O. purpurea, Late Spider Ophrys holosericea and the amazing hypochromatic Fly O. insectifera

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

These look interesting, any thoughts on identity. I think possibly Dactylorhiza traunsteinerioides might be recorded here?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I think I have only found it once, caerulea is by far the commonest, in just the habitat types you mention. I know Alan, been in the field with him.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

None of those features are definitive, there are some macro-morphological characters that can point towards this scarce species, eg gill edge colouration, but even with this it needs to be recorded as a possible.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Why not S. caerulea (syn cyanea)? Checked chrysocystidia?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Seven Boletids in a single day in a West Yorkshire valley, from top left clockwize - Suillus grevillei, Imleria badia, Xerocomellus cisalpinus, Leccinum scabrum, L. cyaneobasileucum, Xerocomellus pruinatus, Neoboletus erythropus.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Endemic plants of Bulgaria, about 170 species are endemic to the country, mostly in the uplands, although the mountains of SW Bulgaria share much of their flora with adjacent countries. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Having never found a Houseleek in their native habitat before, I was very please to come across 3 species in SW Bulgaria @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Primroses of the mountains of SW Bulgaria, the endemic Rila Primrose particularly exciting to find @europeanorchids.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A few of the best Fritillaries from SW Bulgaria in June-July 2025, Only saw one Cynthia's but the high meadows on Vihren were covered in 100,000's of caterpillars #Lepidoptera #Butterflies

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Possibly one of the rarest plants I found in Bulgaria, endemic to the Pirin Mountains - Centaurea achtarovii @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Yes, I know it well, shall be there this evening😊

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The two 5-spot burnets are essentially indistinguishable as adults in the field. Habitat and presence of food plant are indicative but not definitive. In my experience in North Somerset Z. lonicerae are common while trifolii is vanishingly rare. But things are always changing!

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

That one is certainly showing the features of fasciatus, but we have 3 species in Britain!

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Presumably Zygaena lonicerae? in that habitat both could be present.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I don't think this can be fasciatus, possibly sexualis?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Which race are your Dorset insects?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Right, such variation in Z. lonicerae seems to be very rare, I see lots of them. In Z.t.palustrella these fused spots seem common, but I've not seen them in Z.t.trifolii, although said to occur? Frequency?

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Is this equally frequent in both ssp? I have seen many palustrella like this but rarely Z.t. trifolii, not that I have seen many of the latter recently.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

btw what about leaf tip of xwintoni? the middle one in the collage had a typical incarnata leaf tip.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Thanks Sean, I did identify a couple of plants as xwintoni but wasn't at all sure. I know, but I like to record things at the finest level available literature allows, can always amalgamate records later but can disassociate them if didn't take note.

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Some of the variety of Dactylorhiza incarnata, Early Marsh Orchid at Kenfig. Top Dactylorhiza (incarnata) coccinea, middle showing characteristics of Dactylorhiza (incarnata) lobelii, bottom perhaps Dactylorhiza incarnata incarnata var dunensis? @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Or are they are doing the opposite, trying to stand out by looking like an inflorescence very attractive to insects?

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