Arable field margin for #wildflowerhour #thewinter10 today - part of a sacrificial feeding area for the nearby Cirl Buntings 😍 Lovely to see these flowers today even if some of them could not quite open their petals 🥶

Some beautiful Velvet Shanks as the sun begins to set … #fungifriends #mushroommonday

Featuring 5 Lamiaceae and 4 Apiaceae. And Vicia sepium which doesn’t fit but is very pretty 😍 #wildflowerhour #thewinter10

The #thewinter10 for #wildflowerhour . Including four Apiaceae and two types of bramble… 🙌 at Kennack Sands, Cornwall today.

The beautiful gills of the Oily Waxcap, Hygrocybe quieta #fungifriends

Went in search of the Wrinkled Peaches, Rhodotus palmatus 🙌… but only the tiniest (4 mm or so) was showing that beautiful guttation. Interesting to see the chew marks from the Elm Bark Beetle, vector for Dutch Elm disease. #fungifriends #mushroommonday

Tormentil, Potentilla erecta; Sheep’s Bit, Jasione Montana; Burnet Saxifrage, Pimpinella saxifraga; Common Milkwort, Polygala vulgaris; Chamomile, Chamaemelum nobile; and Devil’s Bit Scabious, Succisa pratensis on The Lizard, Cornwall for #wildflowerhour #bloomscrolling @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Holly Parachutes, Marasmius Hudsonii for #fungifriday

So excited to find these Silky Piggbacks, Asterophora parasitica, on some soggy Russulas 🤩 #fungifriends

Pretty perfect Amanita muscaria #mushroommonday

Just love these mysterious and beautiful Cortinarius’ 😍 The consensus on this one is Cortinarius cagei. #fungifriends

Green Elf Cups 🩵 #fungifriends

Beech Milkcap with Siamese twin 👀They seem to be especially prone to mutation…? #fungifriends #devonmushrooms #britmycolsoc

Cortinarius cf mucifluoides. Beautiful 😍 #fungifriends #@britmycolsoc #devonmushrooms

Perfect Panthercap, Amanita pantherina 😍 #fungifriends #devonmushrooms #britmycolsoc

Cortinarius torvus, Stocking Webcap, I’d say #fungifriends #ukfungusday #@britmycolsoc

Deathcap, Amanita phalloides. Just so awesomely deadly …. #fungifriends #devonmushrooms

Amanita citrina, looking sweet as a lemon meringue pie… #fungifriends #devonmushrooms

Violet Webcaps 😍 🤩 #fungifriends

Violet Webcaps 😍

Porcelain Fungus 😍 #fungifriends

Dancing lawyer! It’s not often that you feel the need to video a mushroom 🤣 #fungifriends

Ooh! 👀 🤩 so impressive and smell amazing 🙌 Boletus edulis #fungifriends

Finding this Earpick Fungus, Auriscalpium vulgare , made my day 🙌 #fungifriends

Looking out from the Parasol village #fungifriends

Wild Carrot, Daucus carota , seedhead complete with hairy seeds in the ‘nest’ for #wildflowerhour #seedheads

Some more #fruits for #wildflowerhour - Black Bryony, MeadowSweet and Sea Radish

Dried fruits: Sea Radish, Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. maritimus, with its funky beaded fruits on The Lizard, Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour #fruits

Butcher’s Broom, Ruscus asculeatus, looking fruity #wildflowerhour #fruits

Deer Shield, Pluteus cervinus, looking elegant . Not much else around - yet 😝 #fungifriends #fungifriday

Rosecomb mutation on this Beech Milkcap, Lactarius blennius #fungifriends #mushroommonday

The rapidly declining Field Gentian, Gentianella campestris , and a slightly pathetic Common Centaury for #wildflowerhour #gentianfamily

The awesome camouflage of the Grayling 👀 now you see me, now you don’t 👻

A day with the daisies 😊 #wildflowerhour #daisyfamily Chamomelum nobile, Chamomile; Achillea ptarmica, Sneezewort; Carlina vulgaris, Carline Thistle; Solidago virgaurea , Goldenrod

Golden Samphire, Limbarda crithmoides, for #wildflowerhour #daisyfamily today. I loved climbing down the cliff a bit to find this - out of the mad Easterly wind - where a Clouded Yellow and some Wheatears were sheltering too! On The Lizard, Cornwall.

Field Gentian, Gentianella campestris, on Kynance Downs, Cornwall today. So lovely, and according The Species Recovery Trust, is undergoing one of the fastest declines of all UK plant species. #wildflowers #speciesrecovery @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Mrs Brown (Hairstreak) came down 😍 🙌 And how nice to meet some friendly Devon butterfly people during this exciting event! #savebutterflies #devonbutterflyconservation #hairstreaks #butterflyconservation @bcdevon.bskyb.social

Dodder, Cuscuta epithymum, masquerading as a new type of pink Gorse flowers 👀 #wildflowers

Clouded Yellow at Black Head, Cornwall on Wednesday August 6th 🤩

Prickly Saltwort, Salsola kali, on the beach at Dawlish Warren. #wildflowerhour #bythesea

The Trainwrecker, Neolentinus lepideus, out in the heat! Cornwall, Saturday July 12th. #fungifriends

A little late for #wildflowerhour - the highly hirsute Field Woundwort, Stachys arvensis #hairyplants

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Beautiful Splitgills, Schizophyllum commune growing on a bale 😍 #fungifriends #mushrooms #naturephotography #mushroommonday #mycology #fungi