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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

deeply annoyed by how lush this random roadside staghorn is, i don't even think anyone waters this

a tree which trunk is fully covered by a huge lump of staghorn fern. the fern's leaves come in two forms, the shields go up like a green crown, the staghorns droop down, giving the overall appearance very full and lush

David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Managed to confirm the id of the Cystopteris diaphana with some very nice SEM pictures done by a fellow BPS member and Edge Hull University student Kieran Heggs. #FernFriday #BritishPteridologicalSociety #sporeSunday #EdgeHillUni

Image shows a computer monitor displaying a close up of the back of a fern fronds. Pale structures (open sporangia) can be seen with tiny spores just visible on the frond surface.

Grey background with a pale, very spiny spore.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pleased with the results of yesterday's natural plant dying course. Great fun and now have 17 colours of wool to play with!! Plant used: madder root, alder cones, goldenrod and fennel. #botany

Skeins of different coloured wool hanging on a clothes dryer

More skeins of wool, mostly yellows and greens.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Plumose lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina 'plumosa'). Sizergh Castle, part of one of the National Collections. #BritishPteridologicalSociety #FernFriday

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Water clover (Marsilea quadrifolia), closely related to our native Pillwort, an attractive group of aquatic and amphibious ferns #FernFriday

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My pear tree has decided it's Spring 🤔

white pear tree blossom surrounded by mature green leaves.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Late in the season, but now the rain has arrived it's time to put out some new croziers. Dicksonia antarctica #fernFriday

Green fronds with two green croziers unfurling.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bwncath yn Rhuthun this evening, fantastic 👍

A stage in Rhuthun town hall with silhouettes in the foreground and band members on stage with spotlights.

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James Common @commonbynature.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Well, I said 2026 would be the year I learned ferns, and I must say, it’s going rather well. I’ve had so much fun delving into the pteridological rabbit hole, which has given me a rather good excuse to stray beyond Northumberland... 😂🌿

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Henk-Jan van der Veen @henk-janvdveen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This newly restored medieval drinking trough in my town hides a little ‘deep’ secret: a beautiful patch of Hart’s-tongue Fern.🌿 #WallPlants ##WildflowerHour

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spotted whilst on the train back from #SothportFlowerShow: Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) as a lovely hanging wall fern 😳 #FernFriday

A green pendulous fern growing in a brick archway.

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

FunDive designed a questionnaire with the goal to better understand motivations behind individuals joining and remaining engaged in #citizenscience projects in #mycology! Please complete it if you are a volunteer or share/forward to individuals who are: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Survey on motivation factors in volunteer mycology projects

Dear Respondent, This questionnaire was designed to investigate the primary reasons why individuals join and remain engaged in citizen science mycology projects. It aims to capture the motivations an...

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James Common @commonbynature.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A long-overdue encounter with Hay-scented Buckler-fern (Dryopteris aemula) topped off today’s trip westward. The crisped leaf edges made it much more distinctive than I’d imagined... #ferns

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Equisetum telmateia (Great horsetail) next to the Montgomery canal, Shropshire. #FernFriday

A backlit tall pale green plant, finely branched, against a foliage backdrop.

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James Common @commonbynature.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Another day, another outing, this time to the Cheviots. Surpringly, it was the clubmosses that stole the show... Here's both Alpine Clubmoss (Diphasiastrum alpinum) and Fir Clubmoss (Huperzia selago) looking especially nice 🛘 #botany

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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 31/07/2026

This is a remarkably extreme statistic. Bordeaux, France has recorded more days >40°C in 2026 than in the entire 105 year period combined dating back to 1920 when records began. This summer has been so far above extreme it’s difficult to put into words. Chart: @WxNB_

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Osmunda aplenty! Lot of young Royal fern sporelings (Osmunda regalis) in a sea cave on the Northumberland coast. #FernFriday

A assortment of different sized green Royal fern fronds against a brown sandstone cliff.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Polystichum setiferum 'Pulcherrimum Bevis' spotted in a local garden 😍 #FernFriday #Ruthin

A pale green finely dissected fern nestled in a shady crevice with a moss covered limestone backdrop.

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BSBI Scotland @bsbiscotland.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

No dog owners, we don’t find it amusing when we come across poo bags hanging from trees. And neither do these awesome kids from Liff Primary School…! 🦸🦸‍♀️🎖️🏆🐶🌷☘️🌎

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Asplenium trichomanes (Maidenhair Spleenwort) looking particularly fine in the shade. #fernFriday

A pale green fern with dark rachis' between large wall boulders.

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Tara Severns @taraseverns.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

ʻAmaʻu (Sadleria cyatheoides), endemic. ‘Olaʻa, Puna, Hawaiʻi.

Close-up of a bright lime-green unfurling fern frond stretching diagonally across the frame. Dozens of tightly coiled leaflets gradually open in sequence from the thick fiddlehead at the lower left toward the frond tip, illustrating the fern’s spiral growth. Mature dark green fern fronds with deeply grooved leaflets fill the background.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Cystopteris diaphana (Diaphanous bladder-fern) looking rather gorgeous for #FernFriday #BritishFernSociety

Two medium green bi-pinnate fronds on an earth bank.

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It wasn't *all* Box-tree Moths, a good range of other species included this rather stunning Marjoram Knot-horn (Uncinus obductella), a new species for me 🙂 #TeamMoth

Side view of the Marjoram Knot-horn, a moth with long narrow wings that have a mix of reddish-brown and silvery-grey markings. The moth is posed on Marjoram flowers, this being the plant on which the caterpillars feed.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Ghosts of the past Glynllifon, North Wales #wallWednesday

A faded image of quarrymen on a building wall

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Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

📚 Our latest issue is now online! It's a Joint Special Collection with @newphyt.bsky.social: Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation Including the papers that form the basis of Kew's 2026 State of the World's Plants & Fungi report 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/25722611... #SOTWPF

Cover of Plants, People, Planet volume 8 issue 4: Archives and specimens from the fateful Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) residing in the Carnegie Museum herbarium, Pittsburgh, USA.

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BSBI Scotland @bsbiscotland.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Botany takes you to some wild places! #Intrepid High on the north face of Beinn Lair, Wester Ross, with a newly discovered population of Alpine Lady-fern below and nothing but wilderness beyond... 😍

Happy but tired botanist bridging across the top of a gully on the north face of Beinn Lair, with a populaion of Alpine Lady-fern (Athyrium distentifolium) growing beneath him. Behind a loch and another mountain are visible through the gully slit.
This nationally scarce plant is found in areas of late snow lie, hence the top of this north-facing gully at around 800m above sea level. This was the first record of the species for the hectad.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My dwarf tree-fern, blechnum 'silver lady' 🌱🪴🌿 #FernFriday #PlantSky #Houseplants

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Don't think Richard is a fan of today's heat, seems to have decided to down fronds! Polypodium cambricum 'Richard Kayse' #fernFriday

A clay pot with curled yellow discarded fronds

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Wishing you all a cooler #fernFriday. Male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) #Rhuthun

Male fern shuttlecock amongst yellow, white, pink and blue flowers in a lawn.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A special #FernFriday today. Really proud of our team as our paper has formed a part of @rbgkew.bsky.social sixth State of the World’s Plants & Fungi report. 🎉 A long time from collecting in #Honduras to print! Report here 👉 bit.ly/SOTWPF 🪴 #BritishPteridologicalSociety #EdgeHillUni #WorldMuseum

Poster with flowers and statistics overlain.

Honduran fern herbarium specimens, books and notes at the World Museum in Liverpool,UK

A computer monitor with tree fern crozier on the screen.

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James Common @commonbynature.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A duo of nice #ferns from yesterday's trip: Parsley Fern (Cryptogramma crispa) and Green Spleenwort (Asplenium viride) 🌿

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A monster (70cm) Polypodium interjectum in Coed Cilygroeslwyd today, thought it must be a hybrid, but checked under the microscope and the spores were good! #fern @northwaleswt.bsky.social

A large Polypod with a hand reaching to the base.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A lovely morning exploring the cool shade of a very special ancient Yes wood remnant. Coed Cilygroeslwyd @northwaleswt.bsky.social near Ruthin. Hart's-tongues look like fireworks all over the woods. Nice spot was a Hairy Snail (Helicodonta obvoluta).

Asplenium scolopendrium in a woodland clearing.

A very small brown hairy snail on a brown background.

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Any ento bodd have any thoughts on this little fella? I'm guessing an early instar plant-hopper but would be grateful for any pointers! On Polypodium interjectum in #Denbighshire

A pale brown and translucent green bug feeding on the underside of a fern frond.

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The paper is not online yet but it's too pretty not to show for this #FossilFriday: a new species of Keraphyton from the Late Devonian of Australia, part of the work of @toinechampreux.bsky.social. Keraphyton is an iridopteridale, an extinct group related to ferns & horsetails. #paleobotany 🌿⛏️

A transverse section in a stem of the new species of Keraphyton showing the preserved tissues

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Some pictures from last weekends Fern & Lycophyte course. A great group of students and cracking weather made for a lovely weekend. Pics: Asplenium septentrionale, Lycopodiella inundata and Isoëtes lacustris, all from #Eryri #fernFriday #clubmoss #quillwort #fern #BritishPteridologicalSociety

Green croziers against grey blocky rocks

Macro picture of emerging tufts of clubmoss

Close up of the base of a quillwort showing the spores

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Terrible video, but lovely to see a Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) feeding on Red Valerian outside #Ruthin library. #teamMoth

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If this was dolphins or whales there would be outrage over this. Seems very little serious reporting or NRW investigation. Which species are involved, how many, further research?

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

For #wildflowerhour, Sea Spleenwort recently found growing in sandstone cave crevices on Hilbre Island #ferns

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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🌱 Excited to advertise a new MRes+PhD in my group at Imperial! We'll grow plants in transparent 3D-printed soil mimics and watch root–soil interactions, combining X-ray micro-CT, additive manufacturing & metabolomics. 📅 Deadline: 21 May 2026 | 🌍 Home fee only 🔗 www.imperial.ac.uk/chemical-bio...

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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Cyrtomium macrophyllum found by a friend on the access tunnel to his air raid shelter in mid Norfolk. Now confirmed by the referee this is the 4th GB records and the first outside of London. The wide almost symmetrical pinnae and ragged sori separate it from related species

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Checking sites for next weekend's fern course. This group of Ophioglossum vulgatum (Adder's-tongue) was originally shown to me by Nigel Brown 13 years ago 💚 #FernFriday

A hand parting long grass, revealing several dark green fronds of Adder's-tongue fern.

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