Monday #Mushroom added to the English list last week and one to look out for at the moment, Clavaria calabrica. Looking a bit like Clavaria fumosa but with “dividing fingers”, the texture is more wax crayon like than C. fumosa. #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Mycology #Fungi #UKWildlife

A different location than last week for Clustered Bellflower on a Minchinhampton Common today #WildflowerHour

Harebell in the mist on Minchinhampton Common today Early submission for #WildflowerHour as I’ll be busy later

My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now! Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK. Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄 Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems #fungifriends

Think this is Clustered Bellflower - Campanula glomerata I saw yesterday, not large plants, not much clustering going on… and quite late in the year. Not recorded in the area for a while #WildflowerHour sorry it’s a bit late 😀 Oh and a late Autumn Gentian from Minchinhampton last wk (diff location).

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The lovely sky was worth braving the chill wind on Minchinhampton Common today

Toasted Waxcap - Cuphophyllus colemannianus are up on some of the Cotswold Commons #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKNature #Naturalist #Wildlife

Big blue Pinkgills are out now, these are most likely Entoloma bloxamii s. str. I saw on a Cotswold Common #Fungi #Fungifriends #Mushrooms #UKWildlife

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Stopped for coffee and was transported to another world: Poznan

Autumn Gentian on Minchinhampton Common.. possibly the last of the year in flower on Sunday

Had a very blowy return from a trip to Croatia yesterday.. then the Uber had a blow out in heavy rain on the M56 which took 2 hours to fix… but it was worth it all 😂

Entoloma neglectum from a Cotswold Common. There are around 17 British records including duplicates since 1800 to date so this sequenced find is quite rare #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #UKWildlife

Finally got around to sequencing a Big Blue Pinkgill from Bodmin 2018 which revealed it as Entoloma madidum. One of the rarer species in the E. bloxamii group. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Nature

5:22am this morning and the bats were still over my wildlife garden. (Obligatory rescue cat demanding food as they do).

Pseudoinonotus dryadeus - Oak Bracket will be showing itself any time now until the season end. Image from a few years ago around this time of year. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #Mushrooms

This week’s challenge is #PollinatorPals! Find a flowering wild or naturalised plant with a pollinating visitor & snap away. Of course it’s not just about bees! Butterflies, moths, wasps, flies & beetles can all be #pollinators too! Share your pics for #Wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm!

Volvariella bombycina - Silky Rosegill on a large fallen oak today #Fungi #FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Mycology #Mushrooms

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For my European #FungiFriends why not give some conservation value to your fungi forays this season #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Mycology

Free to download, the latest British Field Mycology quarterly 👌🏼 #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #Naturalists #Nature

Salad Burnet Rust - Phragmidium sanguisorbae (DC.) J. Schröt, Selsley Common today

It’s lovely to see the fruits of your labour and in this case it’s Cherry Plums from some of the hundreds I planted out in hedgerows over the last six years

Two years ago I ripped up the turf of my “new build” lawn and wilded the garden for nature. I’ve had so many success stories with complete life-cycles. It’s difficult finding a favourite, I do enjoy the bats flying around feeding on the evenings and the many dragonflies that share my home

Wildflowers in my back garden have been having a good year with no involvement from me 👌🏼just how I like it 😁 #Wildflowerhour

Some nice Chalk Hill Blue’s out on Minchinhampton Common today @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Alder Moth caterpillar today in Thornbury, just north of Bristol. Isn’t nature amazing! 👌🏼

The value of urban wildflowers often overlooked is they’re role as a food plant or complete life-cycle plant for many insects and the upward part of the food chain for our birds, mammals, reptiles etc. Town Ragwort with Cinnabar moth caterpillars today, natures way of controlling excessive Ragwort

Sea Radish - Raphanus Maritima, the White form of Herb Robert - Geranium Robertianum, Mallow and Wild Carrot along the sea wall at Severn beach #Urbanplants #WildflowerHour

Road verge Hop Trefoil - Trifolium campestre in South Glos this week #WildflowerHour

A Bugle flowered grave image from two months ago that I thought I’d share. It was buzzing with life 🐝

Nipped to my Nailsworth local last night and saw these on the way 👌🏼 Hard to believe some Parish, Town and Unitary Authorities still use Council Tax money spraying and Strimming 🫨

Who knew there are almost 6500 species of parasitoid wasps in the UK? 😲 This is a Large White larva with Cotesia glomerata cocoons on Hedge Garlic in my garden. I have two like this under the eaves of my roof about 50 feet away.. were they carried there? I read no mention of this transportation 🤔

Think this is a Beautiful Plume - Amblyptilia acanthadactyla on my Gooseberry bush, what do you think? @gremlingraeme.bsky.social

Good to see the BMS here now. The quarterly journal Field Mycology is open access now in digital format and free to download

Caterpillars in my little garden this year now number more than 300. There are so many insects on my wildflower patch, the Dragonflies and Damsels are busy throughout the day and the Bats are out before dusk

Little Robin - Geranium purpureum at Browndown, Hants. on the shingle beach

Had a Social Media break for 3 months but thought I’d share a few recent sights. Silene nutans - Nottingham Catchfly at Browndown Hants, last weekend when it was a bit blowy

Gomphidius gracilis or something around that from a find a few years ago #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #UKWildlife #Mycology

Wednesday Waxcap - Porpolomopsis calyptriformis - Pink Waxcap or the “Ballerina Waxcap” #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycologu #Mushrooms #Nature #Naturalist #UKWildlife

Wrinkled Crust - Phlebia radiata looking radiant for #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNature #Naturalists

Wednesday Waxcap: These are Hygrocybe lepida, until recently in Europe we would have called these H. cantharellus but the European species are genetically distinct from the American forms where the species was described #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #UKWildlife #Nature #Mushrooms #Naturalist

Hygrophoropsis rufa for #FungiFriday was thought to be a variety of the False Chanterelle Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, but DNA studies have shown it’s a distinct species. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #UKNature #Mushrooms #Naturalist

If Waxcap Wednesday isn’t a thing then maybe it should be 🙂 Hygrocybe conica in one of its forms. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature

Calocera viscosa - Yellow Stagshorn, a wood rotting fungus is quite common, but not often seen is what’s going on below #FungusFriday #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Mycology #Naturalist

#MushroomMonday already! This is Ramariopsis crocea, often misidentified on recording platforms as its common name “Orange Coral” is confused with other Coral fungi that are orange. It’s quite rare #FungiFriends #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Naturalist #UKWildlife #Fungi

“Do not adjust your screen” these little beauties are Entoloma verae a close relative of E. incanum and possibly a first British record. Glorious Cotswold Grasslands are irreplaceable habitat #Mycology #FungiFriends #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Nature #Naturalist

Entoloma incanum - Mouse-pee Pinkgill so named because of its smell. A good indicator species of mycologically good quality grassland #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Mushrooms #Mycology #UKNature #Naturalist #Wildlife #Nature

These sequenced out as I had expected, Entoloma poliopus in its pink form. “Irreplaceable” Exmoor grassland #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #Nature #Naturalist #UKWildlife