Phoebe MacBride
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Collected a few #daisyfamily members today at Berry Head . Names in alt text Some flashy #pollinatorpals for #wildflowerhour Clockwise from top left: Peacock, then Silver-washed Fritillary, on Common Valerian; Rose Chafer on Wild Carrot; High Brown Fritiallry on Bramble this weekend for #pollinators challenge We have been to see some tiny rushes for #tinyplants #wildflowerhour. Dwarf Rush, Juncus capitatus (left) and Juncus pygmaeus (right) in full flower on The Lizard, Cornwall. From left, clockwise, Spearwort x2, Small-flowered Buttercup, Meadow Buttercup, Hairy Buttercup, Bulbous Buttercup (with 6 petals!) for #buttercupchallenge #wildflowerhour Wild Cabbage, Brassica oleracea at Berry Head today for #CabbageFamily #WildFlowerHour, along with some specialities. Always a lovely trip 🙌 names in alt text Blackthorn growing prostrate and Creeping Willow; being contrary, eyes to the ground for #wildflowerhour #treeflowers. Then, eyes up, an epiphytic Danish Scurvy Grass… Does this count as a tree flower? 🤔
Dandelion towers over the Blackthorn.. Here is Self-heal, Prunella vulgaris, for #storyplants #wildflowerhour today. Traditionally used (as the name suggests) for an apparently random range of ailments, recent research shows that polysaccharides it contains are effective in inhibiting viral infection and replication. Definite signs of Spring for #wildflowerhour today 🙌 😍 Cherry Plum blossom, Willow flower and Danish Scurvy Grass. We also spotted this Early Meadow Grass, Poa infirma, in flower today for #wildflowerhour. You can also see Parsley Piert and Mossy Stonecrop (but no flowers there!). Little white flowers (except Angelica which definitely errs towards pink) for #wildflowerhour today. Common Whitlow Grass decided today was the day in South Devon! 🌞 (Names are in the alt text) Beautiful native Daffodils for #wildflowerhour - today in Devon and last weekend in Cornwall. Also some other lovely signs of Spring 🙌 A selection of the #newyearplanthunt finds for #wildflowerhour #thewinter10 today. A chilly one 🥶 Prize for the least glamorous flower goes to the very dried up Bristly Oxe-tongue, but a flower is a flower, right?! Second prize to the Creeping Cinquefoil, just about holding onto a petal. Two Fumitories (Tall Ramping and White Ramping, which each grow in these locations), Cow Parsley, Sweet Violet and Dog’s Mercury included in #thewinter10 for #wildflowerhour today Arable field margin for #wildflowerhour #thewinter10 today - part of a sacrificial feeding area for the nearby Cirl Buntings 😍 Lovely to see these flowers today even if some of them could not quite open their petals 🥶 The beautiful gills of the Oily Waxcap, Hygrocybe quieta
#fungifriends Went in search of the Wrinkled Peaches, Rhodotus palmatus 🙌… but only the tiniest (4 mm or so) was showing that beautiful guttation. Interesting to see the chew marks from the Elm Bark Beetle, vector for Dutch Elm disease.
#fungifriends #mushroommonday Tormentil, Potentilla erecta; Sheep’s Bit, Jasione Montana; Burnet Saxifrage, Pimpinella saxifraga; Common Milkwort, Polygala vulgaris; Chamomile, Chamaemelum nobile; and Devil’s Bit Scabious, Succisa pratensis on The Lizard, Cornwall for #wildflowerhour #bloomscrolling @bsbibotany.bsky.social So excited to find these Silky Piggbacks, Asterophora parasitica, on some soggy Russulas 🤩
#fungifriends Just love these mysterious and beautiful Cortinarius’ 😍 The consensus on this one is Cortinarius cagei.
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