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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 21/11/2025

🌿 Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 2026 🌿 Join leading researchers sharing evidence-based insights on ponds, pollinators, fungi and urban mammals. Coming up on 14th Jan. More details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717... @jeffollerton.bsky.social @jassydrak.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe.... www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...

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Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See… - Plantlife

Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be the best in Europe. Discover the pressures these colourful fungi and their habitats face...

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Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

After the disappointment of Wisley’s Fungus Day being cancelled by Storm Amy, yesterday I had the privilege of doing a Fungus walk with Liz, the Principal Plant Pathologist for the RHS. It was so interesting and informative. These are just a few we spotted. 🌱 #mushroomMonday #fungusfriends

A collage of four photos from yesterday’s walk. The first is a cluster of sulphur tufts, the second an innocuous looking but toxic Deathcap, the third a Fly Agaric, also toxic and the fourth Coral fungi looking as though it belongs in the sea.

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

THIS WEEK HAS SAUCE 4 Stunning fossils in sedimentary rocks reveal a new and co-oldest Early Cretaceous gilled mushroom-forming fungus Edaphagaricites conicus gen. nov. et sp. nov. academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now! Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK. Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄 Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems #fungifriends

Dark blue hardback cover of RHS Fungi for Gardeners on a set of shelves of gardening books in a book shop

Jassy Drakulic standing next to the bookshelves featuring her new book, smiling

Red stained hyphae of nitrous bonnet with pointed ends that bend away from the stem at right angles

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 08/10/2025

🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation. Read more from @mongabay.com :

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Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of…

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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 02/10/2025

🎲 Looking for something new for game night? Why not try one of these fungus board games — forage, grow, and strategize your way through the through the fungal kingdom! Reviews in this #UKFungusDay blog by Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social: ukfungusday.co.uk/fungusboardgames

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Fungus board games | UK Fungus Day

Many games incorporate fungi for visual or narrative flair, but these three titles go further—creating immersive gameplay rooted in actual mycological processes.

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

A before and after of some fun early autumn fungi at RHS Wisley: Bolete tbd species and Shaggy inkcap Coprinus comatus. One will become ink for #UKFungusDay artwork and the other has made a nice ochre spore print #gardens #fungi #mycology #outreach

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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 19/09/2025

🍄🌱 Gardens can be fungal hotspots — if we let them! In this blog for #UKFungusDay, Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social at The RHS explores how garden practices can encourage (or suppress) fungi & why that matters for #SoilHealth & #Biodiversity. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiingardens #Gardening

A group of orange mushrooms growing in grass next to a dry-stone wall.

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 19/09/2025

🍄 What’s the secret life of fungi in your garden? Discover how they help plants thrive with Dr @jassydrak.bsky.social in How Fungi Make Gardens Flourish 📅 14 Jan 2026 | Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717...

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Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart @smnstuttgart.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

@fundive-fungi.bsky.social is a Europe-wide project to better understand & protect fungi. Find, photograph & document fungi and join us to help reveal Europe's fungal diversity! Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved for more information!

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Marbled interior, smells sweet... Not a truffle, but a conker full of honey fungus! This one was being used to test whether honey fungus affects ornamental grasses/wedges which have become popular horticultural plants #ArmiArmy #fungi #planthealth

Conker, covered in dark soil, cut open showing marbled pale flesh inside

In tact soil covered conker and a tangle of stringy dark rhizomorphs next to it, beneath dead grass leaves

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Midas mushroom paper is out from the Pringle lab - the story of how cultivated fungi can escape and cause environmental harm. We need more native fungal strains available for cultivation so home growers can grow without these risks www.sciencealert.com/cuisine-fad-...

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Cuisine Fad Unleashes Invasive Threat Into The US Wilderness

Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, delicious and easy to grow at home from mushroom kits.

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Call me Jan @followerofclay.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It´s all about fungi! Abortiporus biennis #fungifriends #mycology #blood

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Call me Jan @followerofclay.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It´s all about fungi! Abortiporus biennis #fungifriends #mycology #macro

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Call me Jan @followerofclay.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

It´s all about fungi! Abortiporus biennis #fungifriends #mycology #macro

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Call me Jan @followerofclay.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It´s all about fungi! Abortiporus biennis #fungifriends #mycology #macro

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Call me Jan @followerofclay.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It´s all about old water towers that look like fungi! old water tower in Saxony (Alt-Ottenhain) #watertower

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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Albertiniella polyporicola, a tiny fungus (compare with pore size) on the underside of Ganoderma fruiting bodies. #fungi #fungifriends #mycology

Albertiniella polyporicola on the underside of old Ganoderma applanatum

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Plz share: Do you grow Privet? RHS scientists want your help! Privet is the #1 host for honey fungus root rot, but some species are worse hit than others. Help us with our research by completing this short survey: tinyurl.com/4bj93ah3 Privet ID guide found here: tinyurl.com/5fzumd74

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The #ArmiArmy has a new recruit - Mary Coates from University of York is doing a 10 week project at Wisley to develop faster ways to screen plants for resistance to armillaria root rot aka honey fungus 🍯🍄 #mycology #applied #invitro #mentorship #plantpathology #planthealth #horticulture

Research students Mary and Sam in the prep room washing cut pieces of privet roots

Magenta box with agar set into a slope and honey fungus mycelium and rhizomorphs growing through it

Cut pieces of privet roots placed on top of the agar and fungus slope

Research summer student Mary squatting by an open incubator with magenta boxes of fungi and roots on agar lining several shelves

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Chunky conks on a dead tree in Wimbledon #fungi #mycology #decay Looks very pale but for a red band which makes me consider Fomitopsis pinicola, although that isn't a comment sight in UK... No clue what the tree species is without any leaves/needles! Ideas welcome 🤗

Two brackets, woody but pale with age, on a tree trunk

Both brackets from a different angle looking the same size as a bench which is actually a short distance away

Scene showing the entire dead tree with its branches cut back to the trunk. The the two brackets emerge at roughly a third of its total height

Underside of a bracket showing tiny pores and some white webbing where it meets the wood

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Elin Falla @elinfalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The preprint of my second first-author paper (with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social) is out! Read to find out how virus-resistant companion plants can control spread of non-persistently transmitted plant viruses: www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220... @camplantsci.bsky.social @caiuscollege.bsky.social

Diagram of the compartments in my mathematical disease model and the rates at which individuals flow between them. Compartments are healthy plants, infected plants, resistant (companion plants), un-infective aphids and infective aphids.

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Vivid orange rust pustules on the back of burnet roses along the south coast path on the Isle of Portland #plantpathology #rustfungus #wildflowers

Bright orange dusty spores of rose rust fungus on the back of a white flower of the burnet rose

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Loads of 6 spotted burnet moths on red valerian along the Weymouth shore today #wildflowers #moths

Red head of lots of tiny florets of red valerian which is being visited by the 6 spotted burnet moth which is black bodied with red spots and black curved antenna

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Beautiful day to be working at Wisley. Two fantastic Hilltop Live presentations by our Pathologists for Plant Health Week #PHW2025 Big props to Sam for making his #honeyfungus research so clear for the visitors, even explaining its benefits to nutrient cycling in nature #ArmiArmy

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Celebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉 My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read. ➡️ fieldmycology.org Please read and share!

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Signs of fungi on trees in a south London park: dried up Pleurotus ostreatus oyster mushrooms on a standing deciduous tree and huge black plaques resulting from some sort of other saprotrophic fungus #fungifriends #mycology

Underside of brown shrivelled oyster mushrooms on a tree trunk

Black plaque of a fungus broken into scales on a mossy fallen log

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Andy Platt @andyplatt.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Engyodontium aranearum found in the shed today, on a poor Long-bodied Cellar spider, Pholcus phalangioides. @britishspiders.bsky.social #fungi #fungifriends

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!

The front end of a vehicle stopped at an intersection, held up by a salamander in a tiny safety vest and stop sign. Behind it is a large group of yellow spotted salamanders crossing the road.

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I didn't get to the bottom of identifying this pink crust fungus from a willow stem, but the hyphae looked beautiful under the microscope 💚🍄 #fungifriends #mycology

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

If you haven't heard of Richard Meinertzhagen, it's well worth looking up his story. The sheer amount of fraud and lies in his life are astonishing en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

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Richard Meinertzhagen - Wikipedia

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Lots of polypores on the log piles at RHS Wisley. Looking splendid in the winter sunshine 🌞 #fungifriends #mycology

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Fruiting bodies of decay fungi decorating the dead hedge and log piles in the Wisley wildlife garden over winter Trametes versicolor Bjerkandera adusta Trametes betulina Panellus stipticus #mycology #fungi

A rosette of striped brackets of Trametes versicolor growing from silver birch log

Two stacked brackets of Bjerkandera adusta coming from a horizontal silver birch log stuck full of pine needles that it has grown around

White-pink filled underside of Trametes betulina on a dead hedge upright wooden post

Orange-cream gills underneath a crowd of Panellus stipticus growing from the cut end of a log on a log pile

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Check out this Masters project based at RHS Wisley researching novel management methods for rose black spot disease! Fab supervisors Liz Beal and Alec Forsyth on a ubiquitous horticultural problem. DL 31st January www.canterbury.ac.uk/rose-black-s... #plantscience #plantpathology #plantdisease #msc

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MSc by Research: Analysis of Rose black spot disease reduction using silicon products

An exciting opportunity to work closely with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Fungi & flowers found doing @bsbibotany.bsky.social new year's plant hunt #mycology #botany #fungifriends Happy New Year!

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Special Issue: #Mycorrhizal research now By integrating molecular, physiological, and ecological perspectives, this collection untangles interactions between #plants and #fungi and their effects on terrestrial ecosystems. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/146…

New Phytologist Special Issue: Mycorrhizal research now. View of the soil mycorrhizal community in a hypothetical forest dominated by oak species associated with different types of mycorrhizal fungi.

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas! May your shanks be as velvety as festive bows 🎁🎄🍄 #fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #fungi

Tiny clump of cespitose orange mushrooms which resemble young velvet shank

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

PhD opportunity on honey fungus biology with #RHS & Uni of Birmingham. DL 16th January! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Population genetics, long-read genome assembly, infected plant trials under future climate conditions 🤩🍯🥰 #PhD #fungi #plants #climatechange #plantdisease #plantpathology #ArmiArmy

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Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Cobalt Crust - Terana caerulea is out there in damp woodland and dark hedge corners, even bases of shrub beds. The brighter blue of new growth following wet weather is striking #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNaturalists ##UKWildlife #Nature

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A day spent trying to remember how QGIS works. @jeremybartlett.bsky.social wanted some maps of Sandy Stiltball (Battarrea phalloides) records in Norfolk. We've been cycling round checking up on sites this year and discovering quite a few new ones.

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Ash @avoidasher.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I saw so much yellow stagshorn fungus this year 🤟🪸

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Bold common rust gill mushrooms, Gymnopilus penetrans, can appear all the way from August to January in Temperate Europe. Found along a wood chip path at RHS Wisley #fungi #mycology

Pair of bright orange mushrooms in the border between a wood chip path and grass verge

One mushroom turned upside down to show it's yellow closely spaced gills and a central stem with pale fibres, and mycelium at the base connecting to fragments of wood chips that it was growing from

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Andy Salisbury @andyentomologist.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

@unibirmingham.bsky.social PhD opportunity with the RHS "Not so sweet; Investigating the adaptive potential of the generalist pathogen, Honey fungus, under future climates" info warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... supervisors @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social & @jassydrak.bsky.social

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MycoKeys @mycokeys.pensoft.net · 03/12/2024

Researchers propose four new species of wood-inhabiting fungi of the genus Phanerochaete from China. doi.org/10.3897/myco...

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Awesome talks at today's British mycological society autumn open meeting. TIL that the Mycenas include way more #fungi than just your standard bonnets, some have pores not gills! Very cathartic to see Julie Lawson's artwork, detoxifying capitalist realism with Pleurotus fungi

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Late autumn #fungi at RHS Wisley: blewits and Peziza sp. cups in a border, turkey tail on a cut log (with oyster logs in the background) in the world food garden, and upright coral lining a path #fungi providing extra beauty in #horticulture on top of their ecological benefits

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Sally Fryar 🍄💧 🇦🇺 🧬 🔬 @sally-mycology.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I have made a starter pack for people and organisations involved in fungal conservation. Comment below if you would like to be added. #fungi 🌍 🧪 🦤 #conservation go.bsky.app/MaBDXD9

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Dun dun duuuuuun! Honey fungus strikes again! Thank goodness, as that is what we were aiming for in this infection trial. Turns out that our model privet species for fast infection is the *most* resistant species tested in the Ligustrum genus 🤦‍♀️😱 #plantpathology #mycology #ArmiArmy #honeyfungus

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