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Rebecca Wheeler

@botanybeck.bsky.social

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Obsessed with the natural world, especially #fungi, #wildflowers and #orchids. 🍄 Wildlife gardener and Forest School Practitioner. Leads @wildflowerhour.bsky.social Love needle-felting and always trying to recreate my nature finds in wool felt #SciArt

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · Oct 28

A Crimson Waxcap looking even more beautiful bathed in sunbeams! 🌞
Hygrocybe punicea, Elan Valley.
#fungi #mushroommonday 🍄📸

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 19h

That’s a fabulous one Bob, so many guttation droplets!!!!! ✨

Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 2d

Me too! 🥰

Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

I was so excited to find it Kirsty! Looks very cool!! 😎

Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

How lovely, that’s such a good description of the delicate colours!

Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

I was so excited to see it, the droplets were mesmerising! 🥰

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful!

Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

It’s such a weird looking fungus!!!

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

I was mesmerised by the droplets!!! So pretty!

Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a strange fungus #fungifriends, the Blushing Rosette, Abortiporus biennis. It has 2 growth forms, it can form an attractive rosette but more commonly exists as an amorphous mass which exudes red-brown liquid. Just look at those guttation droplets!!! 😍

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Sean, I was rather taken with it too! 🥰

Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

Ooooh nice!!! 💜

Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 3d

Not seen this one before #FungiFriends, think it’s Green Brittlegill, Russula aeruginia, found beneath Silver Birch. Caps of the mature specimens were very green, younger ones were paler. Stipe chalk white & tapering at base, gills white & crowded. Such a pretty mushroom 💚
#FungiFriday

Photos of green-capped mushrooms beneath Silver Birch trees. I’ve not seen a Brittlegill with a green cap before! The young specimens were pale minty green deepening to a darker moss/olive green in the more mature examples.

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 4d

I think, #fungifriends, this might be the prettiest Blusher, Amanita rubescens, I’ve ever seen!! Isn’t it beautiful! 🥰

#MushroomMonday #FungiFriday

Amanita rubescens commonly known as as the Blusher typically has a yellowish-brown cap with flesh that reddens when damaged. Pictured is a lovely pale example that I encountered today with the cap having a gorgeous peaches and cream colouration!

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 6d

These lovely bramble flowers caught my eye this week for #WildflowerHour 🥰

Ever hopeful bramble flowers looking remarkably fresh in the hedgerows this week!

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 7d

It’s a nice find, pretty uncommon I believe!

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 8d

I have actually seen Flame Shield and from looking at the cap texture and the stipe I think yours looks like a Pluteus too : ) They also love very decomposed wood