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Bob McIntosh

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Natural world of Penicuik, geology, geo collections 🇺🇦

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BIG NEWS! Check out our brand new website and logo, designed by Livetech and now live at www.londonpavementgeology.co.uk

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have a bagpipe playing pig at Melrose Abbey, in Scotland

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honey fungus #fungi

viewed from underneath, a bunch of honey fungus growing out of a mossy log

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Windfall #lichen

a bunch of various lichens on a fallen branch. Resting on a woodland floor of dark wet beech leaves

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fine bunch of sheathed woodtuft #fungi

looking down on closely packed and overlapping sheathed woodtuft growing from the end of an old cut log

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honey fungus #fungi

Looking from underneath, at a translucent cap of a honey fungus. Fine gills and a prominent ring on the stipe

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It goes quite pale as it gets older

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Red-belted bracket #fungi

A large semi-circular bracket fungus viewed from the top. Blackish, orange to white edge.

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

candlesnuff #fungi

Flat forked fruiting body with downy surface, black at the base, through grey to white at the tips. Growing on a mossy log

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Candlesnuff #fungi

Flat forked fruiting body with downy surface, black at the base, through grey to white at the tips. Growing on a mossy log

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amethyst deceiver #fungi

A single purple amethyst deceiver. It has a wavy, turned down cap and a thick scaly stem with prominent thickening towards the base. Growing surrounded by beech leaf litter

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

...stinkhorn #fungi

Stinkhorn, thick white stem with honeycomb-like bell-shaped cap. Growing from a woodland floor of mosses and recently fallen leaves

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amethyst deceiver #fungi

A single Amethyst deciever viewed from underneath the cap showing the widely spaced gills and the scaly stem. A pleasant purple colour

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

great photo!

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Glistening inkcap line-up #fungi

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wrinkled club #fungi

Dull white branching fungus growing in pine needles

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thanks! Yes to slime moulds! Always a delight to find!

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An earthstar appeared in the garden... no long treks to the woods needed #fungi

View of an opened earthstar. A recent arrival, it still has some leaf litter on it. 'Stars' a bit chewed

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a mass of small round, white globular slime mould on a dark rotten log

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bright russula #fungi

Looking down on a bright red cap glistening with recent rain, grass clover background

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pestle puffballs #fungi

A pair of large puffballs, left one smaller. Smooth yellow ochre coloured top, short stubby spaced out spines lower down

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Water drops

water drops on moss sporophytes. The drops are crystal clear and magnify the sporophytes

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Turkey oak

A single acorn and cup of a Turkey oak. The cup has green wavy thick hairs with dried ends. Blue sky background

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Parasol mushroom #fungi

Round and bulbous you parasol mushroom with a thick smooth stem. Out of focus conifer trunks as the background

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Funeral bell #fungi

View from underneath, showing the round domed cap, the fine gills and the ring or annulus on the stem. Growing on a mossy log

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Beefsteak fungus on oak tree #fungi

dark red unshaped fungus with some red liquid emanating in a few places

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The very toxic Funeral Bell #fungi

Small brown fungi with rounded smooth cap and slight whitish fringe, growing in moss

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glistening inkcaps #fungi

Almost a panoramic photo of a mossy log covered in tightly bunched masses of glistening inkcap fungus

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a day for fungus watching #fungi

The cap of an off-white with fine brown streaks fungus. Two round areas either side have been eaten by slugs - with a stretch of the imagination, they look like eyes.

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Track through the woods

A track goes from the foreground, upwards and slightly round a bend to the left/ The foliage all around and tunnel like around the track is lit up by the sun and is bright greens of many hues

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cup fungus #fungi

An orangy cup fungus living on an angle on rotting wood. Outside is matt, inside is smoother and ear like

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a bright orange slimemould with a few cladonia lichen adjacent

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amethyst deceiver #fungi

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#wildflowers skullcap

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Shield bug

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Parasol mushroom emerging #fungi

From a spruce woodland floor a single parasol mushroom has emerged fresh and undamaged A smooth thick white stem and an vertically ovoid shaped cap. The latter is not yet open, has a smooth top and shaggy sides

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lots of these boletes have appeared for the first time in the garden #fungi

A single fungus with a thick reddish stem, thicker at the ground. Cellular pale yellow underside of the cap

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A spiny puffball #fungi

A squat ovoid spiny puffball

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For many years, this tree was upright with the giant polypore at its base. Much weakened the tree fell but the fungus is still thriving.

A fallen beech tree, now horizontal, with large root ball. Numerous giant polypore circle the base of the trunk

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Another #slimemould find

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

interesting #fungi

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pestle puffballs #fungi

Two pestle puffballs, larger one, c 5 inches high. Other much smaller. Leaning to left. Growing in clover

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Apple tree in the woods now bearing fruit

A green/brown apple attached to the tree

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pleated inkcap on the lawn #fungi

A single pleated inkcap, very thin stalk and rounded 'pleated' cap in wet grass/clover mix

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ever wondered who eats #fungi

A brown slug almost envelops a fungus growing on the side of a mossy wet log

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Burdock #SeedHeads #wildflowerhour

8-9 seedheads of burdock, each is round with hooked spikes radiating out

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes, Meripilus giganteus - much bigger than turkey tails. This one is about 18" across and growing!

Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

...and then there were four #slimemould

A group of four raspberry slime moulds on rotting wood - more orange than raspberry