A before and after of some fun early autumn fungi at RHS Wisley: Bolete tbd species and Shaggy inkcap Coprinus comatus. One will become ink for #UKFungusDay artwork and the other has made a nice ochre spore print #gardens #fungi #mycology #outreach

🍄🌱 Gardens can be fungal hotspots — if we let them! In this blog for #UKFungusDay, Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social at The RHS explores how garden practices can encourage (or suppress) fungi & why that matters for #SoilHealth & #Biodiversity. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiingardens #Gardening

🍄 What’s the secret life of fungi in your garden? Discover how they help plants thrive with Dr @jassydrak.bsky.social in How Fungi Make Gardens Flourish 📅 14 Jan 2026 | Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717...

@fundive-fungi.bsky.social is a Europe-wide project to better understand & protect fungi. Find, photograph & document fungi and join us to help reveal Europe's fungal diversity! Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check https://fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved/ for more information!

Marbled interior, smells sweet... Not a truffle, but a conker full of honey fungus! This one was being used to test whether honey fungus affects ornamental grasses/wedges which have become popular horticultural plants #ArmiArmy #fungi #planthealth

The Midas mushroom paper is out from the Pringle lab - the story of how cultivated fungi can escape and cause environmental harm. We need more native fungal strains available for cultivation so home growers can grow without these risks www.sciencealert.com/cuisine-fad-...

It´s all about fungi! Abortiporus biennis #fungifriends #mycology #blood

It´s all about fungi! Abortiporus biennis #fungifriends #mycology #macro

It´s all about fungi! Abortiporus biennis #fungifriends #mycology #macro

It´s all about fungi! Abortiporus biennis #fungifriends #mycology #macro

It´s all about old water towers that look like fungi! old water tower in Saxony (Alt-Ottenhain) #watertower

Albertiniella polyporicola, a tiny fungus (compare with pore size) on the underside of Ganoderma fruiting bodies. #fungi #fungifriends #mycology

Plz share: Do you grow Privet? RHS scientists want your help! Privet is the #1 host for honey fungus root rot, but some species are worse hit than others. Help us with our research by completing this short survey: tinyurl.com/4bj93ah3 Privet ID guide found here: tinyurl.com/5fzumd74

The #ArmiArmy has a new recruit - Mary Coates from University of York is doing a 10 week project at Wisley to develop faster ways to screen plants for resistance to armillaria root rot aka honey fungus 🍯🍄 #mycology #applied #invitro #mentorship #plantpathology #planthealth #horticulture

Chunky conks on a dead tree in Wimbledon #fungi #mycology #decay Looks very pale but for a red band which makes me consider Fomitopsis pinicola, although that isn't a comment sight in UK... No clue what the tree species is without any leaves/needles! Ideas welcome 🤗

The preprint of my second first-author paper (with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social) is out! Read to find out how virus-resistant companion plants can control spread of non-persistently transmitted plant viruses: www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220... @camplantsci.bsky.social @caiuscollege.bsky.social

Vivid orange rust pustules on the back of burnet roses along the south coast path on the Isle of Portland #plantpathology #rustfungus #wildflowers

Loads of 6 spotted burnet moths on red valerian along the Weymouth shore today #wildflowers #moths

Beautiful day to be working at Wisley. Two fantastic Hilltop Live presentations by our Pathologists for Plant Health Week #PHW2025 Big props to Sam for making his #honeyfungus research so clear for the visitors, even explaining its benefits to nutrient cycling in nature #ArmiArmy

Celebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉 My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read. ➡️ fieldmycology.org Please read and share!

Signs of fungi on trees in a south London park: dried up Pleurotus ostreatus oyster mushrooms on a standing deciduous tree and huge black plaques resulting from some sort of other saprotrophic fungus #fungifriends #mycology

Engyodontium aranearum found in the shed today, on a poor Long-bodied Cellar spider, Pholcus phalangioides. @britishspiders.bsky.social #fungi #fungifriends

Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!

I didn't get to the bottom of identifying this pink crust fungus from a willow stem, but the hyphae looked beautiful under the microscope 💚🍄 #fungifriends #mycology

If you haven't heard of Richard Meinertzhagen, it's well worth looking up his story. The sheer amount of fraud and lies in his life are astonishing en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

Lots of polypores on the log piles at RHS Wisley. Looking splendid in the winter sunshine 🌞 #fungifriends #mycology

Fruiting bodies of decay fungi decorating the dead hedge and log piles in the Wisley wildlife garden over winter Trametes versicolor Bjerkandera adusta Trametes betulina Panellus stipticus #mycology #fungi

Check out this Masters project based at RHS Wisley researching novel management methods for rose black spot disease! Fab supervisors Liz Beal and Alec Forsyth on a ubiquitous horticultural problem. DL 31st January www.canterbury.ac.uk/rose-black-s... #plantscience #plantpathology #plantdisease #msc

Fungi & flowers found doing @bsbibotany.bsky.social new year's plant hunt #mycology #botany #fungifriends Happy New Year!

Special Issue: #Mycorrhizal research now By integrating molecular, physiological, and ecological perspectives, this collection untangles interactions between #plants and #fungi and their effects on terrestrial ecosystems. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2024/242/4

Merry Christmas! May your shanks be as velvety as festive bows 🎁🎄🍄 #fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #fungi

Four undergraduate summer studentships available across #RHS Science and Collections Two in #planthealth: -honey fungus infections of privet plants -companion planting to manage aphid herbivory www.rhs.org.uk/education-le... #fungi #entomology #plantdisease #undergraduate #internship #ArmiArmy

PhD opportunity on honey fungus biology with #RHS & Uni of Birmingham. DL 16th January! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Population genetics, long-read genome assembly, infected plant trials under future climate conditions 🤩🍯🥰 #PhD #fungi #plants #climatechange #plantdisease #plantpathology #ArmiArmy

Cobalt Crust - Terana caerulea is out there in damp woodland and dark hedge corners, even bases of shrub beds. The brighter blue of new growth following wet weather is striking #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNaturalists ##UKWildlife #Nature

A day spent trying to remember how QGIS works. @jeremybartlett.bsky.social wanted some maps of Sandy Stiltball (Battarrea phalloides) records in Norfolk. We've been cycling round checking up on sites this year and discovering quite a few new ones.

I saw so much yellow stagshorn fungus this year 🤟🪸

Bold common rust gill mushrooms, Gymnopilus penetrans, can appear all the way from August to January in Temperate Europe. Found along a wood chip path at RHS Wisley #fungi #mycology

@unibirmingham.bsky.social PhD opportunity with the RHS "Not so sweet; Investigating the adaptive potential of the generalist pathogen, Honey fungus, under future climates" info warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... supervisors @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social & @jassydrak.bsky.social

Researchers propose four new species of wood-inhabiting fungi of the genus Phanerochaete from China. doi.org/10.3897/myco...

Awesome talks at today's British mycological society autumn open meeting. TIL that the Mycenas include way more #fungi than just your standard bonnets, some have pores not gills! Very cathartic to see Julie Lawson's artwork, detoxifying capitalist realism with Pleurotus fungi

Late autumn #fungi at RHS Wisley: blewits and Peziza sp. cups in a border, turkey tail on a cut log (with oyster logs in the background) in the world food garden, and upright coral lining a path #fungi providing extra beauty in #horticulture on top of their ecological benefits

I have made a starter pack for people and organisations involved in fungal conservation. Comment below if you would like to be added. #fungi 🌍 🧪 🦤 #conservation go.bsky.app/MaBDXD9

Dun dun duuuuuun! Honey fungus strikes again! Thank goodness, as that is what we were aiming for in this infection trial. Turns out that our model privet species for fast infection is the *most* resistant species tested in the Ligustrum genus 🤦‍♀️😱 #plantpathology #mycology #ArmiArmy #honeyfungus