Ageing Earpick mushroom on a pine cone.

Exploring some really fabulous grasslands in Ireland at the moment. Particularly stunned by the abundance of splendidissma and nitrata at some sites! Colemannianus is also pretty abundant as many of the grasslands are on limestone.

This Beech tree may be dead, but it’s far from lifeless!! What an amazing array of fungi (and slime moulds) found on just one log. See ALT text for some attempted IDs. #fungi #NewForest 12/11/25

A young Wood or Sordid Blewit (Collybia nuda/sordida) at Bushey Norwood, Claverton Down, near #Bath #Somerset #UK. This one was tiny! These mushrooms often appear in rings, but this one was solitary. #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #fungi #mushroom

Unexpected visitor while foraging, Hazel dormouse.

So many Marasmius hudsonii in the woods. #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

Tiny mushrooms in the grass. #fungi #fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology

Parrot waxcaps in the rain today. #fungi #fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology

The huge plasmodium I started watching the other day can be given a name at last. One fragment of it is already morphing into sporocarps. It's Badhamia utricularis, the most beautiful specimen I have ever found. Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #slimemoulds #śluzowce #Myxogastria #Amoebozoa

I never knew there were beach mushrooms 🏝️ 🍄‍🟫 Well, here is such a species… Dune Cavalier perhaps? Found at Tentsmuir Beach last week 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #NatureWithin #Fungi

A collection of mushrooms from my walk. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology

Parrot waxcaps in old grassland. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology

Unknown (by me) fungi on pine cones. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology

More ear pick fungus on a pine cone. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology

Lovely bolete, with red underside and black ink staining, then turning blue when exposed to the air. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology

Tiny earpick fungus on a pine cone. #fungifriends #mushroommonday #mycology

Fungifriends. #fungifriends #mushroommonday

Witches butter fungi. #fungifriends #mushroommonday #mycology

@botanybeck.bsky.social You were right. My first waxcaps of the year woo hoo. Three hours of trekking around the estate, despondent, heading home and 20 yards from cottage voila ! #fungifriends

Dark sky, light sky, divided by a rainbow.

Beautiful Black chanterelles in Oakwood, Mayo. #fungi

Green woodpecker(f) brightened up a very gloomy Bodmin moor this morning. #birds #Cornwallbirding #Birding #birdphotography #Naturephotography #wildlifephotography

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Hedgehog #fungi in Oakwoods, Mayo.

A Bitter beech bolete (Caloboletus calopus) seen today under beech trees on Dawyck Botanic Gardens near Peebles. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon @thebotanics.bsky.social

Caterpillar Club fungus (Cordyceps militaris) seen today in Dawyck Botanic Gardens, near Peebles. Spotted it against the green of freshly mowed grass/mosses along Beech Walk. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #Macro @thebotanics.bsky.social

A gorgeous new-to-me slime mould from a rotting ash hulk. I think it keys out to Lamproderma arcyrioides. #slimemold #slimemould #myxomycetes #lamproderma #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk

Nut disco, Oct 2020. Ah, memories.

Wild Cherry-Gean. Prunus avium glowing in red. #wildflowerhour

Scabiosa still hanging on in woods. #wildflowerhour

A lovely day yesterday seeing some of my favourite waxcaps 🥰 It was wonderful to see them again even though some weren’t looking quite their best because of the recent dry weather. Also saw Earthy, Snowy, Slimy, Blackening, Golden & Pale. 17 waxcaps in a day is not bad!! #FungiFriday #MushroomMonday

They seem to have slowed now but this has definitely been an excellent year for Boletes. I’ve seen many species for the first time this year, including Devil’s Bolete, Bilious Bolete, Inkstain Bolete, Oak Bolete, a white Penny Bun & more! #Fungi #Mushrooms 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫

For #fungifriday here’s a beautiful Death cap - Amanita phalloides. Found today when out walking my dog (who thankfully doesn’t like mushrooms. #fungifriends

A bluesky post post. Cladonia on a fence post. #nature

A lovely pair of parrots for #FungiFriday 🦜🦜 Gliophorus psittacina #FungiFriends

The importance of leaving deadwood in a forest. Birch polypore on trunk and mushrooms at base of old Silver birch tree. #fungifriends #fungifriday

Logs taken over. #fungifriday #fungifriends

Life on a tree stump. #fungifriday #fungifriends

Fungifriends. #fungifriday #fungifriends

Fly agarics again today, just love them. #fungifriday #fungifriends

Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪 Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Inocybe lilacina, also known as Lilac Fibrecap. Deciduous woodland, Dorset 17/10/25 #fungi #FungiFriends

Powderpuff bracket (Postia ptychogaster) on a conifer stump in Selm Muir Forest, West Lothian. #Fungi #Mushooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #WestLothian #Scotland

It's been a late start this year with the dry weather but the grassland fungi are finally appearing. I'm going to post a waxcap species each day as we move through peak fruiting season, hoping to encourage folks to recognise and record this important group. @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

Field Scabious, Knautia arvensis, with a backdrop of the "Witness" sculpture at Langley Vale Centenary Wood. #WildflowerHour johnmerrill.co.uk/witness/

Plant engulfed by quicker growing mushroom. #fungifriends

A Southern Green Shieldbug from scrub in the Rainham Dock East part of Riverside Country Park in Rainham (Kent) yesterday. #bugs #Truebugs #Hemiptera #KentNature