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Ben

@benrl.bsky.social

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Avocational dilettante in botany and mycology, based in North West Uk. Houseplants grower, favourite families are Hoya and Gesneriaceae

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 7h

Snap! Same place last year

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 9h

Hi Matt, really enjoying your Waxcap posts. I have only found this species once in some light mixed woodland on top of limestone Silverdale area. In your experience sort of conditions do they favour and are they early or late season? Thanks

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 1d

Blueing bracket, Lilac Pinkgill, Fairy Fingers and Liberty caps found at weekend in North Wales #fungi #fungifriends

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 1d

I remember your excellent dune fungi blog post from a couple of years ago and have been keeping my eye out for these and Dune Cup

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 2d

I meant scarlet waxcap #fungifriends

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 2d

Waxcaps plentiful in North East Wales. Pleased to find some Orange and Toasted waxcaps. As well as first Crimson of year #fungi

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 2d

I think these are Entoloma conferendum. Pink spore print left by overlapping caps #fungi

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 4d

North Wirral finds for #wildflowerhour this week

Purple viper’s bugloss escaped into cemetery

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 6d

Baby Waxcaps in Thurstaton Wirral. Hygrocybe reidii, Cuphophyllus virgineus and Gliophorus laetus #fungi #fungifriends #fungifriday

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 6d

Grassland #fungi from churchyards in Wirral. Excited to find a new coral. Tentatively calling it Beige coral #fungifriday

Cordyceps militaris. Scarlet club growing from a buried insect larva

Small grey/rufous coral emerging from moss and short grass

Meadow coral. Tiny and fresh yellow coral

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 6d

Old mossy lawns around University of Liverpool’s city campus yielded some interesting #fungi. Particularly the black cups next to old tree stumps. Any help with ID would be very welcome #fungifriday

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 10d

That is a handsome find Lukas, I’ve never come across it before. Does it grow in habitats with other typical CHEGD fungi?

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 11d

Some liberty caps for #ukfungusday #fungus

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 11d

Honey waxcap- with a strong familiar sweet smell. Golden waxcap and an unidentified grey metallic mushroom with white gills on a short graveyard walk #ukfungusday #fungi

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you. I think I would have needed a dissecting microscope to follow the key through

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 11d

Bugloss, Common hempnettle and what I think is Knotted Clover. Attempted to key the clover out for #wildflowerhour

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 13d

Nice to see Waxcaps slowly appearing. Now raining heavily so excited for next week #fungifriday #fungi

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 15d

Not many grassland #fungi fruiting yet but the woodland more productive #mushrooms

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 18d

This plant has had a great year in North Wirral. Long flowering season too. One of my many favourites

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 18d

Colourful Glassworts seen with Liverpool Botanical Society at Hightown. S. europaea group appear beaded and central flower much larger. S. Procumbens group have more cylindrical segments and lateral flowers similar in size to central #wildflowerhour

Yellow is procumbens group red is europaea group species

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 20d

Drop in night time temperature so thought I’d visit the cemetery. Only a dried up slimy waxcap and this lovely glutinous waxcap (H. glutinipes) were found #mushroom #fungifriends

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 24d

Should probably only be used as a deliriant/hallucinogen under the tutelage of Don Juan

Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 25d

Small scabious and Bitter vetch found whilst unsuccessfully looking for Waxcaps near Mold #wildflowerhour

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hoya carnosa ‘tricolour’ is a less prolific bloomer than some others in my conditions. The umbels are really big though. Doesn’t smell particularly strong #hoya #houseplants

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Sean Cooch @waxcapscooch.bsky.social · Sep 6

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wonder.... I’m giving a talk.

The wonderful world of Waxcap Grasslands

Exploring the ecology, conservation and global importance of these vibrant fungi

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