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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The photogenic Liverwort,Ciliated Fringewort, Ptilidium ciliare, posing in the Quarry at Ughill Farm nr Sheffield @bbsbryology.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Walking around the local garden centre, peered under the citrus leaves and came face to face with Icerya purchasi, Cottony Cushion Scale. An introduction from Australia @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes, on the Rotherham bound platform

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Should be Trachyspermum ammi, but you know the spell check knows better

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Found this one at a Tram stop in Sheffield on a Sorby Botanical Meeting. Lots of head scratching and app searching in the end we settled on it potentially being Ajowen Caraway, Trachyspermum ammo, #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yes I’d be happy for you to use the photo

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Certainly do, currently in Minehead, N Somerset, don’t see many of these back in Sheffield

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Round Leaved Fluellen, Kickxia spuria. Arable field in the Quantock Hills, with a Peloric Flower!! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Gunna take a deep breath for this Common Broomrape, Orobanche minor ssp minor Var pseudomethystea forma lutea Crosby Dunes #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Good year for Smooth Rupturewort, Herniaria glabra, at its South Lincs site near Sleaford. Last few years it was burnt to crisp by now #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Had to put on my crampons on and grow my Chris Bonington beard to see the Snowden Lily on Cwm Idwal, worth it in the end. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Field Fleawort, Tephroseris integrifolia ssp maritima, at it’s only place in this world on Anglesey @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Privileged view of Washington window at Selby Abbey Pictured just after renovation in 2006, also part of the American Trail #stainedglassSunday #usa #ushistory #americantrail

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Roger Butterfield @rogerbutterfield.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Dewberry (Rubus caesius) growing along the Chesterfield Canal at Shireoaks. Thanks to @pshughes.bsky.social for pointing it out during yesterday's @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social field-meeting.

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

One of the botanical secrets in my local woods is Mountain Melick, Melica nutans. Putting on a show before the canopy closes. Anston Stones Wood S Yorks @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Early Meadow Grass, Poa infirma, has just been confirmed by the VC 61 East York’s recorder & BSBI Poa referee, Wheldrake E Yorks @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Big fan of Trevor, as I live in his area, it was his YouTube videos that piqued my interest to go and see them

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Puccinia tumida a Rust found on the Leaves and Petioles of Pignut, probably best time to keep an eye out for the it #fungus @panspecieslisting.bsky.social #mycology

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is it! The most Northerly native Pasqueflower in UK, for many years it’s hung on for dear life, Ledsham, Yorks @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The Spring Cinquefoil at Brocadale nr Pontefract was mentioned in J E Lousley’s famous New Naturalist book Wild Flowers of Chalk & Limestone, You can see why, stunning @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Early morning walk around Gamston Wood SSSI near Retford, surprised to the amount of Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia there is, lots of patches of it as you meander through

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Went to check out the invasive ant colony in B&Q car park in Worksop, which are also present at the Notcutts Garden Centre at Welbeck, I understand it is Tapinoma magnum. @hymenopterists.org.web.brid.gy @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social #ants

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It was nice eventually catch up with the Purple Toothwort that grows in the Sheffield Botanical Gardens #wildflowerhour @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Yes I always knew it was there, but I was always looking in the wrong area, I’ve recently been looking for the rare moss Anomodon longifolius, recorded over 30 years ago, hopefully we’ll have the same outcome

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Bendy Ditrichum Flexitrichum flexicaule, now showing very well in the old Magnesium Limestone quarries in S Yorks. @bbsbryology.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social #bryophytes @panlistapp.bsky.social

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Plenty of Early Colletes, Colletes cubicularius overlooking the Trent Valley at Barton Hills Sand Pits SSSI, Notts @hymenopterists.org.web.brid.gy #bees

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Part of the West window for the Hessle Church restoration E Yorks in Magnesium Limestone @historicengland.bsky.social #restoration @englishheritage.bsky.social #stonemason

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Rare Spring Sedge Carex ericetorum starting to show well on Lindrick Common Golf Course, S Yorks @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Mezereon, Daphne mezereum and growing among it the rare Rose-moss, Rhodobryum roseum. Millers Dale NR Derbys. March @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The dis-used railway cutting between Cresswell and Clowne Derbys, was adorned with Liverworts, finally managed to catch a Bifid Crestwort Lophocolea bidentata in its glory

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