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Thanks Jeremy! Just the nightshades provided by Suffolk really. There’s loads of Black and Green growing together and I know there’s a hybrid but I’ve never knowingly found it.

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Solanum nitidibaccatum, Green Nightshade, hairier than Black and with those dark red V shapes in the flowers. I see lots of it in the Suffolk Brecks in potato fields!

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

During 'Wildflower Hour' last night I saw that the feed was often lagging by 10 or more minutes whereas a search for the hashtag and selecting 'Latest' was updating by the second. Anyone else notice? 🤔 #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Plant paternity is tricky business. Eucalyptus, for eg, can reproduce with plants from related but different species to create successful seedlings, creating hybrids. Read about how researchers have been investigating plant parental histories. Read here: buff.ly/2G1VUjg

Eucalyptus accedens shown in two panels: left, a mature gum tree with pale, patchy trunk standing in a dry field under clear blue sky; right, close-up of a twig with clusters of green, rounded buds/fruits and lance-shaped leaves.

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Very few records in @bsbibotany.bsky.social database for Shaggy Soldier, Galinsoga quadriradiata, from the #Suffolk #Brecks to date! It was growing in this field of carrots but on the sandy margin strip used by heavy irrigation equipment. 🤔

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That's interesting. Looking at the @bsbibotany.bsky.social atlas it seems as though Dublin is the best place to find it! Quote: 'Curiously, it has spread very little in Ireland, where it was first recorded in 1980.'

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A few from Saturday's walk around Cambridge for #WildflowerHour, names in ALT text. Interesting to see Spiked Speedwell coming into bloom for a second time this year. Nice to see some Autumn Red Dead-nettle too, normally an early Spring flower 🙂 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Top left, across and down...
Yarrow, Smooth Hawksbeard (possibly) / Black Horehound, Hedgerow Crane's-bill, Field Scabious;
Wild Mignonette / Creeping Cinqfoil, Spiked Speedwell (budding!), Hedgerow Crane's-bill / Ivy;
White Campion / Brown Knapweed, Red Dead-nettle, Dandelion / Common Carrot, Toadflax.

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Obligatory photo of Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens, growing in masses between the tracks at #BuryStEdmunds station and behind railings in the station approaches. #WildflowerHour #Suffolk

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Common Reed, Phragmites australis, going to seed at #LakenheathFen #Suffolk today, still providing a perch for, what else but, a Reed Bunting. #WildflowerHour

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Shaggy Soldier, Galinsoga quadriradiata, in its regular spot along Saxon Street in #Cambridge (L) but also amongst the nettles at the side of a #Suffolk #Brecks field at Icklingham (R). #WildflowerHour

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Common Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, by far the commonest flower beside tracks at RSPB #LakenheathFen #Suffolk today. #WildflowerHour

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Flowers of Jerusalem Artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus, still flying high by the end of West Wood at RSPB #LakenheathFen #Suffok today. #WildflowerHour

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Lucerne still flowering on the central reservation of the A1307 outside @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Wandlebury #Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

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Bastiaan Brak @bastiaanbrak.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Flowers from a very wet morning at @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Wandlebury #Cambridge: Perennial Flax, Blue Fleabane, Wild Parsnip & Wild Carrot. #WildflowerHour

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Leuke #stoepplant vondst vandaag ergens in Westergouwe: Siertabak (Nicotiana x sanderi) #PlantsNotPolitics

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Bittersweet, Solanum dulcamara. Look out for the leaf mine of the micro moth Acrolepia autumnitella also known as the Bittersweet Fanner, the Bittersweet Smudge and the Speckled Bittersweet moth. The mine is a translucent blotch and the larva is whitish-green with a pale brown head.

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Growing near Gunnera in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Stream Garden this leaf looks like Common Meadow-rue, Thalictrum flavum, & hence #mildew on it Erysiphe aquilegiae var. ranunculi (quoting Woods et al, 2024. See ALT). All those in favour! ✋🍄 #UKFungusDay #Mycology #Botany @britmycolsoc.org.uk

A Meadow-rue leaf with mildew which should be Erysiphe aquilegiae var. ranunculi according to:
Woods, R.G., Chater, A.O., Stringer, R.N., Evans, D.A. & Smith,
P.A. (2024) Towards a Handlist of Microfungal Parasites of
Vascular Plants from Britain and Ireland and a Census Catalogue
for Wales. A.O.Chater: Aberystwyth.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thanks to the keen mycologists at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social's Fungi Field Day today for finding these #fungi - Penny Bun and Fluted Bird's-nest. #UKFungusDay #Mycology @britmycolsoc.org.uk

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Penny Bun (Cep), Boletus edulis. In beech woods near Swaffham, Norfolk, yesterday. Just the one, which was in poor condition but still identifiable. #Fungi #FungiFriends

Penny Bun (Cep), Boletus edulis. A lot of the cap has already been eaten.

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Thanks for a really interesting presentation! The 3D printed fungi had me fooled for a bit. 😆

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I agree, couldn’t face driving from Cambridge so I’ve spent #UKFungusDay looking for fungi that aren’t toadstool shaped. Here’s an example - Shropshire Blue! 😉

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Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum UK @timimu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not all fungi are toadstools! Here’s a grey covering of Clover Powdery Mildew, Erysiphe trifoliorum, on White Melilot, Melilotus albus, in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social today. 🩶😉 #Fungi #Mildew #UKFungusDay

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Great rainbow over #woodbridgetidemillmuseum shot from Alan Dickinson Alan Dickinson yesterday

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edg59.bsky.social @edg59.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

An ecological niche on a single leaf! Common Lime leaf… …attacked by sap-sucking insects secreting honeydew …on which sooty mould fungi grew …and through which are tiny snail tracks! #UKFungusDay 😉

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Does this qualify for #SteepleSaturday ? It's the bell tower of Ledbury church, built separately due to unstable ground. It has a carillion which plays a hymn at intervals: the resident ravens seemed annoyed by that.

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Tower of St Andrew's church Impington #Cambridge, early 13th century, upper stages rebuilt in 14th, and with 15th century embattlement, all of Barnack limestone and pebble rubble. Contrasting timber framed porch also 15th century. #SteepleSaturday

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/10/2026

Nice cool damp evening for a stroll around the garden. The resident Toad.

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What does the health of the soil beneath our feet have to do with the price of food on our supermarket shelves? Quite a lot, actually, writes Martin Lines. After a summer of extreme drought, the case for farming that works with nature has rarely been stronger.

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Food security and resilience vital after extreme summer drought

After this summer, the climate crisis is impossible to ignore. We need major changes to how we farm if our food system is to remain resilient

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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Although it was a cold wet day when I took these photos the underside of the fungus look bright because it's illuminated from below with my phone while I took the shot with a camera. 😉

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St Giles church have just dropped some flyers into the library for my talk for them on Thursday 5th November at 11am, with refreshments from 10:30. I'll be talking about the history of public libraries in Cambridge and I'm informed there will be cake. Here's John Pink, the first borough librarian.

A portrait of John Pink, the first borough librarian, who opened the library in 1855 and was still working for the library over 50 years later when this portrait was painted. An older gentleman with gray hair and short beard wearing a black three piece suit and a bowtie.

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Henry Cook @hcbirding.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Always a highlight of the mothing year - Merveille du Jour at RSPB Lakenheath Fen this morning #TeamMoth

A Merveille du Jour sat on a piece of wood. It is a mint green moth with black and white intricate markings

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Geological Society of Norfolk @geolsocnorfolk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cross Orbweaver, Araneus diadematus, in the garden today. Cross no doubt because it had to be rescued from amongst apple trees prunings in the green bin. 😉 #Spiders #Gardening Cherry Hinton 🍒🏘️ #Cambridge

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'Exceptional fossils: the surprising, the significant and the strange' lecture by Dr Peter Sheldon. Featuring cutting-edge techno stuff: medical imaging; colour patterns; DNA; sound reconstructions. Cambridgeshire Geological Soc, Mon 12th Oct @ 19.30. See www.cambsgeology.org/events #FossilFriday

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Geological Society of Norfolk @geolsocnorfolk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Two million years ago, the North Sea lapped over much land where East Anglia now lies. It left sandy, gravelly, fossilly sediments of the Norwich Crag Formation. Some lovely fossils have been found in the Waveney valley. #FossilFriday #palaeontology #geology @quaternaryra.bsky.social 🧵

A small collection of fossil gastropods including whelks and turritellids lying in a petri dish. Some of the whelks are iron-stained orange in colour.

A small collection of phosphatised fossil fish vertebrae lying in a petri dish. They are dark brown in colour.

A small collection of fossil bivalves lying in a petri dish. Some of them are iron-stained orange in colour; others are white.

A collection of fossil gastropods including winkles and whelks lying in a petri dish. Some of the winkles display their original striped colour banding.

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I'd offer the services of the Cambridge branch but they're generally busy between Worts' Causeway and St Bene’t’s church.

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