Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton.bsky.social

Scarlet Waxcap (Hygrocybe coccinea) a perfect specimen showing its wonderful gill pattern. 🍄 #fungifriends

Happy Fungi Thursday 🍄 #fungifriends

The multi-millionaire who bought farmland to avoid tax… And the man who decimated farming to progress his own career …are now the self-appointed saviours of farming On today’s pod we discuss how people have lost their damned minds. Listen on link below…

Elonia is having a strop on the other place...

Oh no he didn't like that. Do it again!

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The Death Cap (Amanita phalloides) is the most poisonous of all mushrooms, responsible for 90% of fungi-related deaths each year. Famous victims include Emperor Claudius and Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. The toxic constituent is α-Amanitin, which causes liver and kidney failure. #fungifriends 🍄

Welcome to the Xodus!

Here is deadly Galerina Marginata. Its common names include funeral bell, deadly skullcap, autumn skullcap and deadly galerina. This is an extremely poisonous fungi containing the same deadly amatoxins as the death cap (Amanita phalloides). #fungifriends

Trooping Funnels, oven baked with olive oil. Delicious 🤤 #fungifriends

Freshly picked Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus) sautéed in olive oil and simmered in a reduction of white wine, wild mushroom stock and capers, served on fresh pasta with a few sprinkles of parmesan. #fungifriends

On St Agnes’ Eve, these climactic lines from Keats: ‘…he arose Ethereal, flush'd, and like a throbbing star Seen mid the sapphire heaven's deep repose; Into her dream he melted, as the rose Blendeth its odour with the violet,— Solution sweet.’ #poetry #Keats

Delicious Velvet Shanks (Flammulina velutipes) are here! Happy foraging my lovely #fungifriends 😍🍄📷

Fungal love and festivities to one and all!🍄❤️🍄📸🍄#fungifriends

Baskets of pure fungal delight 🍄📸 #fungifriends

So it was secret santa with my lovely work people yesterday and look what I was gifted! 🍄 #fungifriends

Shrooming in the hedgerows #fungifriends 🍄

Blewitts galore! What a season we’re having! #edibles #fungifriends 🍄

Wood Blewitts, Saffron Milkcaps, Hedgehog Fungi, Winter Chanterelles and Amethyst Deceivers! Autumn in all its splendour! #fungifriends #edibles 🍄🍽️

Wild mushrooms (Blewitts) made into the most delicious risotto this weekend 😋 #food #cooking #fungifriends 🍄🍽️

Today’s haul #fungifriends 🍄🍄🍄

#poetry /3 In the rooms heaped high with childrens’ clothes, hairbrushes, suitcases with names, I cried But not so in the chamber where they died The grey cemented walls held no clues No personal remains But all scrubbed bare

#poetry /2 There were no temporary huts or corrugated rooves, Nor ruts between confinement blocks pitted by fear No makeshift madness born of panic here. But row by row, the red brick buildings storeys high Looped and twisted in electric wire This place was built for generations to come

#poetry They said it was a place where no birds sung But there were birds Somewhere in the trees above Between the shadows It was not dead. Over the gates in iron Wrought strange determined words ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ But there only my mind tried to free itself From this reality

Amanita Muscaria (Fly Agaric). #fungifriends 🍄

Wonderful Wax Caps 🍄

Cauliflower fungi, amethyst deceivers and trooping funnels! 🍄