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Lukas Large

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Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge

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David Stevens 🇺🇦 @davidst999.bsky.social · 5h
A Striated Earthstar (Geastrum striatum) poking up from the conifer and leaf debris behind my garden shed. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #Edinburgh #Scotland
A Striated Earthstar (Geastrum striatum) poking up from the conifer and leaf debris behind my garden shed. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #Edinburgh #Scotland
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 6h
This is a great idea. I got one a couple of months ago and have barely used gas for cooking since. I'm hoping to fully replace the gas hob soon - the oven's already electric
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Eos @eos.org · 29/09/2026
Underground fungi networks help many of the plants on Earth survive. A new technique images these networks in their natural environment for the first time. 🧪 Research published in @newphyt.bsky.social. Comments from @thecrobe.bsky.social @spun.earth @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. eos.org/articles/fun...
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Fungi Are Holding the Food Web Together. New Research Images This Underground Network. - Eos
By combining computer tomography—the same technology used for medical scans—with a high-powered particle accelerator, researchers have imaged the network of roots, fungal structures, and soil together...
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 10h
Insect declines threaten wildlife far beyond insect world. Apart from being food, insects provide other species with homes, protection, chemical defence and sanitation - to name a few things. Great review article by @r-cooke.bsky.social with BEAUTIFUL visuals. 🧪🪳 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Visuals demonstrating the following:

Many freshwater fish eat insects
Parrots nest in termite mounds
Chimpanzees use insects on wounds
Poisonous frogs get toxins from ants and beetles.

73% of studied vertebrate species eat invertebrates
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Galling, @galling.bsky.social · 10h
Gall of the week is caused by the cynipid Neuroterus anthracinus f. agamic on oaks, Quercus spp. Plenty about now. The insect is of the sexual generation. Gall photo photographer unknown, insect photo from Bladmineeders nl Plant Parasites of Europe.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 11h
Morning. 🖼️ Tunnicliffe, What To Look For In Autumn, 1960.
Autumnal forest floor scene of leaves, red squirrel, fungi, nuts, jay in flight in distance and thrush, falling leaves, illustration.
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egg bagels best bagels @salmoneggbagel.bsky.social · 12h
Bleeding Fairy Helmet, Mycena haematopus #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #fungus
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Hasan Al-Farhan @hasanalfarhan2.bsky.social · 13h
Fungi highlights from last few weeks (top left going clockwise): Earthy Powdercap / Penny Bun / Liberty Cap / Scarlet Waxcap / Hen of the Woods / Chicken of the Woods #fungi
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 13h
I've just got this book and my initial impression is that it's fantastic, it goes far beyond the usual artwork - although it includes many classics like Beatrix Potter etc. #MycoBookClub #fungi #Mycology www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/span...
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Spanning 200+ Works, a New Book Celebrates the World of Fungi
This October, Phaidon will release an expansive tome gathering more than 200 photographs, artworks, historical objects, and more all devoted to the vast diversity and creative potential of mycology.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h
Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi
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Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi
Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiome
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seventhwavebham.bsky.social @seventhwavebham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fiat Lux, Promenade Cinema, HaHa Hats, Zion Train, Transglobal Underground, Test Dept & Bruise Blood All gigs at the Castle & Falcon, Birmingham Tickets www.skiddle.com/g/theseventh... & www.seetickets.com/promoter/the... @fiatlux60.bsky.social @bruiseblood.bsky.social @rocketrecordings.bsky.social
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The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huge news. We’re always banging on about how important it is that local journalism is paid for, but we know younger people often struggle to afford a news subscription.
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Open Art @open-art.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ogata Kōrin's 'Plum Tree' dates to around 1700. It's a hanging scroll painted with ink on silk. The artwork resides in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Edo period, Japan.
A hanging scroll depicting a plum tree with twisting branches, painted in ink on silk, showcasing traditional Japanese art style.
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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Want to take part in #WaxcapWatch but not sure where to start? Our fungi expert Aileen, takes you through the free Waxcap Watch app step-by-step so you can start recording waxcap sightings in no time. Every record helps fungi conservation.🍄 Take part today - loom.ly/r4WNTFw
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Pemberley Natural History Books @pemberleybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
✨ Freshly published! Discover the fascinating world of the #GlowWorm, from its remarkable light and life cycle to its #ecology, #behaviour and #conservation. A beautiful new guide to #LampyrisNoctiluca tinyurl.com/theglowworm @pelagic.bsky.social
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robkewley.bsky.social @robkewley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cluedo created in Birmingham you say? We’ve so much in this city we could exploit… New coin revealed with hidden messages celebrating Cluedo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New Cluedo 50p coin unveiled by Royal Mint
The Royal Mint has unveiled a new collectible coin celebrating the board game Cluedo.
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
By leaving deadwood in community spaces and woods, land managers & councils can provide homes for all sorts of insects, mosses, fungi & lichens, as well as vital bird & bat nesting sites. It's also easy #climateaction⁠, as deadwood locks up carbon for years! #wildlife #nature #biodiversity
A dead tree left to rot down slowly in parkland near to a river
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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dendrocollybia racemosa, a weird little mushroom that grows on the sporocarps of a.o. Russula nigricans. It's only the third time ever I have found this species since it's pretty rare and rather inconspicuous. 🍄 #FungiFriends
Small mushrooms that are basically just branched stipes without a hat, appearing between litter and moss on the forest floorFruiting bodies of Dendrocollybia racemosa with in the background the much larger fruiting body of Russula nigricans
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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 28/09/2026
🔬 For the first time, a scientific study has systematically examined what causes deterioration in the chemical mountants used to preserve insect specimens, revealing that slide degradation is driven by multiple complex factors rather than a single culprit: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.194995
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MycoKeys @mycokeys.pensoft.net · 28/09/2026
🍄 A comprehensive study of medicinal fungi in China has revealed two new species of Ganoderma and resolved a taxonomic debate, clarifying that what Asian researchers had mistakenly identified as a European species was actually an entirely distinct Asian fungus: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.140.204190
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Sare ♡ @birgittenyborg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Joe Lycett’s ‘Everything Must Go’ exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is brilliant. Go if you’re anywhere nearby!
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Despite the dry conditions we found a reasonable number of species in the Jewellery Quarter cemeteries on the @westmidsfungi.bsky.social foray this morning
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm quoted in this article #FungiFriends www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why families are being urged to look closer on autumn walks
Experts urge families to spot, photograph and enjoy autumn fungi on their doorstep.
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is the paper that introduced magic mushrooms to the English speaking world. It caught the attention of the poet Robert Graves, who passed the information to R. Gordon Wasson who then went looking for hallucinogenic mushrooms in Mexico archive.org/details/Schu...
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Teonanacatl: The Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs
Teonanacatl: The Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs, by Richard Evans Schultes, from American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 42, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul. - Sep., 1940), pp. 429-443, in 16 pdf pages.  Teonan...
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Suillus grevillei seen in Clent #FungiFriends #fungi #Mycology
An orange mushroom in moss
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Tanyptera Project @tanyptera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us for our next webinar - Cuckoo Wasps with Dr Liam Crowley - Mon 12th Oct - book your free place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congratulations to Alison Pouliot whose magical new book, FUNGA OBSCURA, has been highly commended by the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Illustrative Books! Please join us in celebrating both Pouliot's work and the wonder of all things fungi 🍄
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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fungi from a walk near Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire - the IDs are mostly tentative, in some cases non-existent! But a huge variety of shapes and colours. Pen and watercolour drawings. #fungiFriday #fungi #nature
Pen and watercolour drawings of a variety of fungi from Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire (UK)
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Daniel Greenwood @djgwild.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chicken of the woods in the West Sussex, August 2026 An August fungi photo foray near Petworth with plenty of chicken, but zero soil-based mushrooms found.
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Chicken of the woods in the West Sussex, August 2026
An August fungi photo foray near Petworth with plenty of chicken, but zero soil-based mushrooms found.
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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm getting excited about #Fungitown next weekend, the perfect reason to #VisitHay I'll be in Hay Castle, illustrating some of the #fungus that'll be foraged, & selling cards & #botanicalillustration prints & originals. There's so much going on, come and visit!: www.fungitown.org.uk/programme-1
#FlyAgaric #Amanitamuscaria #sciart illustration of #fungus cut to white and traditionally illustrated by hand in watercolour.  This illustration will be for sale as a limited edition print at Fungitown in Hay on Wye October 3-4th

Theres one central Fly agaric, scarlet with white scales on the cap, and a torn annulus on the whtie stipe.  Three other ones are nestles at the base showing basal scales and the more domed cap shape of younger Fly agaric#sciart illustration of #edible #mushroom #agaricusbisporus #fungus cut to white and traditionally illustrated by hand in watercolour.  This illustration will be for sale as a limited edition print at Fungitown in Hay on Wye October 3-4th

Pencil drawing showing one mushroom, gills facing us with a cross section of a smaller specimen on the right, and a medium sized one with torn stipe ring and gills clearly showing on the left#sciart illustration of #ScarletElfup #Sarcoscypha austriaca #fungus cut to white and traditionally illustrated by hand in watercolour.  This illustration will be for sale as a limited edition print at Fungitown in Hay on Wye October 3-4th

Illustration shows the scarlet fungus with paler outer side growing on a log alongside moss, and with the bark illustrated in detail.  Two smaller Elfcups abut the main image#sciart illustration of a whole field of #waxcaps #Hygrocybe #fungus growing in a meadow, with a distant background.  The illustration is cut to white and traditionally illustrated by hand using #pencil.  This illustration will be for sale as a limited edition print at Fungitown in Hay on Wye October 3-4th

Grasses flank the fungi on either side and the largest specimen, a #Meadowwaxcap is in the centre.  Other waxcaps surround it, along with #earthtongue and #spindles.  There's detailed grass, tormentil and eyebright flowers, and turf in the foreground
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Next week, October 1 at 6:00 pm EDT, join the @harvard.edu Museum of Natural History in welcoming David S. Hibbett, author of The Complete Fungi! Hibbett will discuss the diversity of fungi and their roles in the evolution of life on Earth. Register for this free, hybrid event here: buff.ly/SHjV9RQ
The Complete Fungi: Evolution, Diversity and Ecology by David S. HibbettDavid S. Hibbett
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seashells by Paul Callomon & Gary Rosenberg is a marvelous single-volume reference to some five thousand species, presenting shells found from sandy beaches & coral reefs to polar shores & the ocean depths. Available 13 Oct. Preorder yours: buff.ly/vzA4JBG #Shells #Seashells #Nature #Mollusks
Seashells: A Compendium of Five Thousand of the World's Species by Paul Callomon and Gary Rosenberg. A sumptuously illustrated guide to marine mollusks from around the world.
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Disconcerting cover design
John Whitman

THE PSYCHIC POWER OF PLANTS

FANTASTIC REVELATIONS ABOUT THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS

Design shows a tree with a face
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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 24/09/2026
Where do forest #fungi prefer to grow? A study published in #FungalEcology explored fungal communities across 11 different #forest substrates and showed that different substrates potentially act as important sources and reservoirs of fungal diversity. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
White mushroom growing alone on a mossy tree branch. Credit: Luke Williams.
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Luke's Mushrooms @lukesmushrooms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🌎 Artomyces pyxidatus 🇬🇧 Crown coral 🇩🇪 Verzweigte Becherkoralle 🇨🇿 Korunokyjka svícnovitá 🇸🇰 Korunovec svietnikovitý 🇵🇱 Świecznik rozgałęziony #closeup #fungi #fungiphotography
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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So Mushroom signed prints & card sets available in my shop: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Bern...
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If anyone's interested in learning about fungi foraging in Birmingham, I'll be leading a foray on the 3rd of October www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fungi-fora...
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Fungi Foray
Connect, forage and collect....Let's forage together and learn about all things Fungi. Learn about the magical world of Mycellium!
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New York Mycological Society @newyorkmyc.org · 22/09/2026
Our NYMS iNaturalist project — "Fungi of NYC" has reached over 1000 sequenced observations! 🥳 Congratulations to everybody who got us to this milestone! #DNASequence #Mycology #Fungi #citzenscientist www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dr Stuart Desjardins, current Editor-in-Chief of #BritishandIrishBotany is looking to stand down at the end of 2026. The search is on to find a successor: could that be you? There will be lots of support on offer: bsbi.org/blog/2026/09... Details of the role & how to apply: bsbi.org/about/people...
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Changing of the guard at British & Irish Botany
The BSBI is for everyone who cares about the wild plants of Britain and Ireland.
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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A number of 🚨Science & Museum Jobs🚨 available at different levels right now for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections UK programme 🪩 #DiSSCo 🪩 fab if you're into 🌳science digitisation🌳 #ScienceJobs #MuseumJobs jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
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DiSSCo UK Digitiser:South Kensington
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Outdoor domestic cats impact biodiversity beyond terrestrial systems This Hector's dolphin, and the fetus it carried, died of toxoplasmosis Only outdoor cats disperse Toxoplasma oocysts in the environment Keep cars indoors For biodiversity, health and cat safety www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
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Dolphin found dead on Invercargill beach died from toxoplasmosis
A pregnant Hector's dolphin found dead on an Invercargill beach died from toxoplasmosis.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Hemimycena species". from "Fruiting Bodies": photos by Mike Roberts. #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #photo #photography #mikeroberts #mycology
                                           in the darkness of the forest
                             in the shade of fallen trees
                                     in the shadow of the understorey
                                                            dew-jewelled parasols
                                                                    and fans
                                                                         and bonnets glow
                    the moonlight memories
                               of midday sun
                            the ghosts of delicate complexions
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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 22/09/2026
An entire kingdom one step closer to being seen, valued, and protected.
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Scientists push for fungi protection
A global movement to recognise fungi is gaining momentum ahead of UN biodiversity talks at COP17.
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A classic Hortiboletus, but which one? The lack of red under the cap and blueing above the gills rules out bubalinus and the orange in the stipe base suggests engelii
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some people are truly horrible in their stupidity. Loughcrew has some of the most powerful megalithic art - the vandalism is an attack on Ireland & the world Prehistoric cemetery at Loughcrew 'seriously vandalised' by blunt force and graffiti
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Prehistoric cemetery at Loughcrew 'seriously vandalised' by blunt force and graffiti
Loughcrew is one of four main passage tomb cemeteries in the country.
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Amanita rubescens just emerging from the leaf litter #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday #fungi #Mycology
A spotted mushroom partially covered by dead leaves
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Dispatch and it's Mill Media siblings are doing a fantastic job and are well worth supporting
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 20/09/2026
In order to understand early modern science, images are no less significant than words. A new #NotesandRecords special issue examines a wide range of images, from true-to-life drawings to carefully conceived schematics: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/issue/8... #HistSci #HistSTM
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A nice specimen of Laccaria amethystina showing the purple mycelium #FungiFriends #Mycology #fungi
A purple mushroom attached to decaying leaves by purple mycelium
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The legendary Lynne Boddy closing the @allthingsfungi.bsky.social festival
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