Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis) - At least twice the usual number of mushrooms pushing their way up through the dead bracken alongside the wood-rushes 🩷🌿 #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

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

Aseroe ruber - Anemone stinkhorn 😳 This specimen is immature, yet to fully burst from its egg sack. #allthingsfungi #weirdfungi #aseroerubra #fungifriends

Since we started doing #NoMowMay in 2020, I’ve been hoping for an orchid to pop up in my lawn. But I’ll take two Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis)! AKA Ballerina Waxcap… of course they are 🩰 #MushroomMonday #fungi #mushroom

Birch Bolete 🍄‍🟫 at Powerstock Nature Reserve in Dorset #Fungi #Mushrooms

Ecstatic to find a small colony of Pipe Club - apparently common but first time I’ve spotted it 🤩✨🍂 #Fungi

A pair of Bovine Bolete (Suillus bovinus) in a stand of Pine & Beech 🌲🌳🍂 #Fungi #Mushrooms

A nibbled Birch Bolete in the Blackdowns (Leccinum) 🍄‍🟫🍂✨ #Mushrooms #Fungi

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Crab Brittlegill, Birch Brittlegill, Chestnut Bolete & Bloody Brittlegill from Wareham Forest 🍄‍🟫❤️🍂 #Mushrooms #Fungi #MushroomMonday

Primrose Brittlegill (Russula sardonia) seen near Wareham Forest last week 🩷 #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Mushrooms

It really is the season of purple shrooms. Violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus). #fungifriends

Yellow Swamp Brittlegill (Russula clarofava) in a wet birch woodland near Wareham this morning 💛 #Fungi #Mushrooms

I don’t see many Fly Agaric in the Blackdowns so it’s always nice to find one 🍄😍🍄 #Fungi #Mushrooms

Nice to find Blue Band Brittlegill - Russula chloroides, showing the distinctive turquoise ring at the top of the stem #Fungi #Mushrooms

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 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫

Beautiful pink Brittlegills - probably ‘The Flirt’ Russula vesca, growing with Oak & Beech 💕🌳 #Fungi #Mushrooms

Huge variety of Brittlegills & Milkcaps fruiting at the moment #Fungi #Mushrooms

First Fly Agarics of the year for me, plus some False Deathcap 🍄‍🟫🍄 #Fungi #Mushrooms

Charcoal Burner with Beech in the Blackdowns #Fungi #Mushrooms

Plums and Custard (Tricholomopsis rutilans) at Wayford Woods 🩷💛 #Fungi #Mushrooms

A couple of beautiful Webcaps from Somerset 💜🤎 for #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Mushrooms

Shaggy Inkcap, AKA The Lawyer’s Wig - Coprinus comatus 🤍 #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Mushrooms

Found a beautiful Brittlegill & have been to a workshop today to try & get it sequenced to find out which species it is - fingers crossed it works! #Fungi #Mushrooms

Geastrum pectinatum (EN beret earthstar, PL gwiazdosz długoszyjkowy). Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #grzyby #fungi #fungifriends #mycology

Have always wanted to see this one 😍 Devil’s Bolete - Rubroboletus satanas 👹 - I actually picked this thinking it was Caloboletus radicans & was surprised to find it was this! Have left it with another one growing next to it #Fungi #Mushrooms

Seven Boletids in a single day in a West Yorkshire valley, from top left clockwize - Suillus grevillei, Imleria badia, Xerocomellus cisalpinus, Leccinum scabrum, L. cyaneobasileucum, Xerocomellus pruinatus, Neoboletus erythropus.

I’m definitely obsessed with mushrooms - now have mushroom ornaments in my cactus pots 😆🌵🍄 #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi

Milkcaps & Brittlegills - my favourites to try & identify - i think these are Russula pseudointegra, Lactarius azonites, L. zonarius & L. semisanguifluus #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

Lots of Boletes in Somerset - Lurid Bolete, some kind of Ruby Bolete, Weeping Bolete & Matte Bolete #Fungi #Mushrooms 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫

Colourful mushrooms for #FungiFriday Twig Parachute, Burgundydrop Bonnet, Scarletina & a Pinkgill #Fungi #Mushrooms

Bonnet mushrooms including Lilac Bonnet & Rosy Bonnet for #FungiFriday

Collared Earth Stars (Geastrum triplex) now appearing out of the leaf litter in woodlands. These were seen today in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Duddingston and Bawsinch Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon @scotwildlife.bsky.social

The beautiful & rare white Penny Bun - Boletus edulis var. alba, in Somerset 🤍🤩 #Fungi #Mushrooms #MushroomMonday @britmycolsoc.org.uk

Weeping Bolete, growing in moss at the base of a pine tree 🌲🍄‍🟫 #Fungi #Mushrooms @britmycolsoc.org.uk

Summer Bolete, looking ready to burst 🍂🌿🍄‍🟫 #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

Ruby Bolete ❤️ #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

Collared Earthstar for #FungiFriday 💫✨🌟 #Fungi

Tiny Bonnet mushrooms for #FungiFriday Have pored over the books & think it could be Mycena rhenana - appears to be growing on a knopper gall of an acorn 🤍 #Fungi #Mushrooms

Toothed jelly fungus (Pseudohydnum gelatinosum) aka Cat's tongue, or Jelly tooth found today in a South Lanarkshire conifer woodland. #FungiFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology#Nature #Photography #Nikon #Scotland

Red Cracking Boletes in Somerset - top left is most-likely the Matte Bolete (Xerocomellus pruinatus) but I’m not too sure about the others! 🍄‍🟫 #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

Purple Swamp Brittlegill (Russula nitida) & Humpback Brittlegill (R. caerulea) 🤩 #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

I make this Red Swamp Brittlegill (Russula aquosa). Growing in a bog under Birch trees near Wareham 💕🤍🍂 #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

Clustered Bonnet - Mycena inclinata #Fungi #Mushrooms #FungiFriday

Orange Porecap - a striking species with a vibrant orange colour & honeycomb-shaped pores, found in South Somerset (Favolaschia claudopus) 🧡🍊 #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

Fresh Beefsteak Fungus 🥩 in Dorset today! Fistulina hepatica #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

I finally found it! The Rosy Spike (Gomphidius roseus) - apparently only grows with the Bovine Bolete although there was no sign of it fruiting nearby 🤩 #Fungi #MushroomMonday #Mushrooms

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A Pinecone Bonnet (Mycena seynii) near Wareham Forest - a beautiful pink bonnet mushroom which looks to be quite uncommon 🩷 #Fungi #Mushrooms #MushroomMonday

Unsure what this Ascomycete is - possibly Spring Pin 🤔 #Fungi