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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 2h

Apple Day and Guided Walk at Thrandeston today - we had a plethora of apple & pear varieties to sample as well as rare specimen saplings to buy (for me, a Golden Russet). We are lucky to have such wonderful diversity. Among them a hard pear stored and used as winter survival food 500 years ago.

A wooden tray with compartments occupied by labelled varietal apples in a colourful display.

A basket containing the Suffolk Thorn apple variety.

A basket containing the Norfolk Beefing apple variety

A blue plastic basket filled with the Jupiter apple variety. The colours are golden with scarlet patches

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 7h

We’re cutting mercury emissions, but climate change could bring yesterday’s pollution back into the food chain. Thawing permafrost, wildfires, and warming waters may change how mercury moves and becomes toxic methylmercury. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Climate change reshapes the global mercury cycle

How will climate change shape future human risks to mercury exposure?

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 3h

The highlight of National #Fungus Day at Harcourt Arboretum in Oxon (very very dry, few species) was this stunning Magpie Inkcap Coprinopsis picacea, found growing on woodchip by some excited children #fungifriends

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Liz Louise @lizlouise.bsky.social · 9h

Holly Parachute 🪂 (Marsmius hudsonii) Exmoor #Fungi #Mushrooms @britmycolsoc.org.uk

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#ukfungusday and nice to finally have Waxcaps up and about. Surveys this week still have a feeling of early September in terms of who's fruiting. The hot dry summer really seems to have pushed the season back. Fibrous Waxcap (Hygrocybe intermedia)

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mudwort Limosella aquatica motherlode. New Forest, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Something for Norfolk-based naturalists to keep a look out for this autumn. So far there is just a single county record (from New Buckenham Common)

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Some more beautiful Waxcaps from this week #ukfungusday Nitrous (Neohygrocybe nitrata) Yellow foot (Cuphophyllus flavipes) Scarlet (Hygrocybe coccinea) Pink (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis)

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Typhula juncea, Slender Club #fungus, growing from fallen leaf stems.

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Taxonomic analysis on Giant Waterlily was carried out by Maarten Christenhusz, BSBI Wales Officer He said "This is one of those extraordinary botanical stories where modern technology, indigenous knowledge & happy coincidences came together to uncover an extraordinary plant" bsbi.org/about/news/l...

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BSBI staffer confirms new species of Giant Waterlily

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Helen McAra @hedgerownibbler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Spathulata brevipes, the very rare relative of the more common Cauliflower fungus (Sparassis crispa). Found in Hampshire this week. They were massive (approx 50x40cm) & had the most delicious smell which filled the air. Don’t worry I didn’t eat them! This species has wide, fan-like lobes. #ukfungi

Large, dirty cream coloured mushroom which resembles a natural sponge. It is growing on the forest floor.

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Botany One @botany.one · 09/10/2026

How does a leaf know when to die? rdcu.be/GFPzJ4vjZE3a Botanists think they've found the amino acid that signals when a leaf is ready to drop. (Full thread at: www.botany.one/how-does-a-l...)

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cock's Eggs Salpichroa origanifolia on Hayling Island, Hampshire. A long-established escapee. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nottingham Catchfly Silene nutans still flowering at Sinah Common, Hayling Island. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The PCR positivity map is out and the national average has risen again to 10.65% in England, 5.4% in Scotland. Scottish data is as of 4 days ago (Sunday); English data is as of 3 days ago (Monday). jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/8

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The Species Recovery Trust @speciesrecovery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We've seen a huge drop off in Field Gentian (Gentianella campestris) numbers across the south of the UK over the last few years, a worrying sign of climate breakdown. Our Director Dominic Price recently spoke about this on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme ⤵️

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A few fungi from a visit to Roydon Common on Tuesday 6/10 - one of a large group of Deathcaps around an oak, the underside of a Fairy-ring Champignon, and Sphagnum Greyling and Sphagnum Brownie both found near the edge of the mire. #fungifriends

A young Deathcap Amanita phalloides fungus with a greenish-ellow cap, white stem and the volva visible at the base

The underside of a Fairy-ring Champignon Marasmius oreades

A Sphagnum Greyling Sphagnurus paluster emerging from a clump of Sphagnum moss

A Sphagnum Brownie Hypholoma elongatum with alight brown cap and very long, slender stem, emerging from Sphagnum moss and surrounded by Purple Moor-grass, Heather and Cranberry

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Following @alexoutside.bsky.social 's observation that two different powdery mildews were present on the same birch leaf (from a recent foray at Brett's Wood) based on the difference in size of the chasmothecia, I had another look at the sample to illustrate the size and structural differences.

The underside of a birch leaf, showing small dark circles which are the chasmothecia of powdery mildews. Two patches are ringed with a thin red line to illustrate the two different species.

A microscopic image of powdery mildew chasmothecia. Near the top is a single large dark circle with several straight appendages with bulbous bottoms = Phyllactinia betulae. There are then many smaller dark circles with appendages that branch at the end = Erysiphe ornata.

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)

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Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It doesn’t look much but I’ve been wanting to find it for a while - Beechmast Candlesnuff (Xylaria carpophila). Not rare, but very small and only found on old beechmast 😎 #fungi

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gompholobium scabrum wearing its usual shades of pink! This species is absolutely stunning it’s relatively large flowers and intense colour can be spotted from while away!

Gompholobium scabrum, light pink standard with darker pinkish red wings and keel coming out of the leaf axis

Gompholobium scabrum flowers up the stems of the plant, easy stem having spirally arranged thin leaves with recurved margins

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M.J.McGill @mjmcgill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A perk of annual scrape management work is being able getting out there, however brief. Both Mudwort Limosella aquatica and Grass Poly Lythrum hyssopifolia continue to grow on the scrapes managed for waders. #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #wildflowers

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the end game Earth's energy imbalance The difference between amount of energy Earth receives from the sun and amount it radiates outward into space has more than doubled over past 2 decades, massively exceeding increase predicted by climate models. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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Earth's energy balance is rising much faster than scientists predicted, and we have no idea why

For reasons still unknown, Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than models can account for. Now, scientists are calling for long-term investment in monitoring capability, so that they can m...

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A cheeky #fungi foray after work yielded ten waxcap species, one of them Garlic, new to me. My son’s first time of seeing red & pink waxcaps, he absolutely loved it!!! 🥰 🔁 from top left Scarlet, Ballerina, Honey, Blackening, Glutinous, Slimy, Parrot, Golden, Garlic & Snowy. #FungiFriends 🍄 📸

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This year's drought seems to have been a boon to Mudwort Limosella aquatica in this New Forest pond. Hundreds of plants seen today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Erysiphe ornata, a powdery mildew on birch, from Brett's Wood at the weekend. The appendages to the cleistothecia branch into lovely curled shapes at the tips.

Underside of a birch leaf showing dark (mature) and yellow (immature) cleistothecia. On the left of the leaf is a Phyllonorycter moth leaf mine.

Two dark circles (cleistothecia) viewed under a microscope. Appendages are rising from them, with curled branches near the tips.

A dark circles (cleistothecium) viewed under a microscope. Appendages are rising from them, with curled branches near the tips.

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David Stevens 🇺🇦 @davidst999.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Larch bolete (Suillus grevillei) seen today in Selm Muir Forest, West Lothian, Scotland. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #OMSystem #Scotland

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Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wasn’t looking for Holly Parachute (Marasmius hudsonii) today, it just popped into my eye line - always welcome though, and look at that tiny one !! #fungi #NewForest 5/10/26

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Dr Astrid Biddle @astridbiddle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dipped into Hatchet Pond this week to see what charophytes were there: stands of Nitella transluscens out beyond the Myriophyllum alterniflorum. In a hidden corner, a strand of Utricularia minor.

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes! Cool critters, though. So many around Norfolk this year!

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rogerrob473.bsky.social @rogerrob473.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Chiltern gentians still just holding on at Streatley (W. Berks) this week but have been few and tiny this year after the dry spell. #wildflowerhour

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Rambling Ray @rayrambling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Impressive looking Golden Waxcaps Kerridge Hill Hygrocybe chlorophana. Initially viscid dome shaped before flattening out, retains a Beautiful Golden Mango colour. Typically twice the size of Glutinous & Butter Waxcaps, reaching 7cm in both Height and Diameter #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology

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John Martin @pilning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New plant for me during a mostly sunny autumn week in Norfolk. Asarina procumbens (Trailing Snapdragon) on a church near Cromer, looking splendid. I have failed to find it a few times before e.g. Llandudno. Thanks @bramblebotanist.bsky.social for gen #wildflowerhour

Asarina procumbens looking very happy and flowering well having come through the summer heat and drought on a church wall

Asarina procumbens closer view of the flowers

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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tasteless Water-pepper was a new plant for me yesterday (species 106!) In poached ephemeral wetland beside the Thames. #Wildflowerhour

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Rambling Ray @rayrambling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thrilled to see soft Orange tones of Apricot Club Clavulinopsis luteoalba at Kerridge Hill, has tapered White tips (Yellow Club are blunt). Plus Glorious White Spindles Clavaria fragilis, worm-like Fairy Fingers, so brittle they break in your hand #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Very pretty group of #fungi in the woods. Possibly Mycena haematopus?

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Rambling Ray @rayrambling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kerridge Hill truly is a Waxcap wonderland, eight species on display this week. Lovely Glutinous Waxcap Hygrocybe glutinipes, appears dripping Orange or Viscid Lemon Yellow. Classic Blackening Waxcap Hygrocybe conica, Orange, Red Yellow & Black Witch's Hat! #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology

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Caroline M @carolinemockri4.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The 'pièce de résistance' of the fungi world! 🍄 #flyagaric #fungi #Stockhillwood

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Rambling Ray @rayrambling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some imposing characters at Cheshire WT Kerridge Hill this week. By far the largest Fly Agaric I've seen this year almost twice their regular size. Plus an impressive Lilac Pinkgill Entoloma porphyrophaeum, lovely fibrous Lilac-Brown cap and stipe #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was given the run around with a clouded yellow yesterday too. No pic for my trouble...

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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Chiltern Gentian Gentianella germanica at Homefield Wood yesterday. Almost dipped it but @ghostofdatura.bsky.social found us a pristine one after several amarella false alarms. Wedge-shaped ‘wibbly’ corolla tube and trianglular leaves split it from Autumn Gentian #wildflowerhour

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Red-Hemp Nettle on Dungeness NNR suffered with the drought conditions this year However a population in a partial shady scrub patch has responded well to management last winter It also has had a 2nd flush after late summer rain #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Taking the opportunity to start working on a few areas of the drawdown zone in the Long Pits, Dungeness for the scarce Lesser-Water Plantain (Baldellia) with some in flower and in seed The water levels are very low at the moment #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Lesser-Water Plantain in flower plus in seed - Dungeness

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lot's of nice wildflowers around still in Cambridge. And the sun came out, so a chance to try out the new phone camera! Names in ALT text. #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Top left and clockwise:
White Dead-nettle, Viper's Bugloss, Dwarf Mallow;
Wild Mignonette, Ragwort, Dewberry;
Common Carrot, Pink (?) Campion, Creeping Cinquefoil;
Agrimony;
Lanceolate Aster (nat.), Dandelion, Bristly Oxtongue, Yarrow.

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Found a few fly agaric #fungi while on yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting. Always good to see. #fungifriends

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We found a very patient #lizard on yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting. Was climbing up a pine tree. Stayed still for ages while we all got a few shots of it. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Stinkhorn from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Interesting, I wouldn't have expected that either!

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