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Martin

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currently writing 'Finding England's Ancient Grassland' Botanical surveyor and artist based in the Tees Valley, England. If it's about plants, I'll be interested. http://theintermingledpot.wordpress.com

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Sue Beesley @suebeesley.bsky.social · 19h

We've got them, or something like it, in our lawn..

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 19h

that's exciting!
Fungi lawns should be an aspiration like wildflower lawns (also moss lawns too, but appreciate that's not for everyone).

Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 20h

Some spindles from last week's road verge on the North York Moors which I think are Golden Spindles (Clavulinopsis fusiformis)

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 20h

Occasionally keep finding hairy versions of Heather and so popping it on here so I can search for it if I need to.
I can find it listed as Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull var. hirsuta (Waitz) S.F. Gray but Stace 2019 doesn't include it; a (recessive) mutation a bit like white flowers but less common?

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Rob Large @roblarge.bsky.social · 1d

I rarely see Stropharia aeruginosa, Verdigris Roundhead on my local patch and when i do they are typically single and small. Today I found a troop of about 20 some of which had caps approaching 90mm.

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 1d

Giant Willow aphids, I assume, on Willow.

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 21h

the garden centres now have a comparatively adventurous selection of winter foliage plants for window boxes & pots where they look at leaf colour, texture, shape, etc and it has no relation to how the plant was traditionally used in the garden, this one included!

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know about you but I’ve seen lots of fungi this week, shall we have a #WildFungiHour tomorrow for #WildFlowerHour & celebrate all those wonderful diverse grasslands that ‘flower’ in the autumn too! All the wild blooms that you’ve spotted in the last week are welcome too of course! See ALT ⬇️

Species-rich grasslands can be just as colourful in the autumn too - with fungi!!! Grassland fungi are very special and are some of the most threatened organisms globally. Let’s celebrate them for #WildFlowerHour this week. Spotted a waxcap, club, coral or other grassland fungi this week, show us your pics this Sunday 8-9pm

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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 5d

This upcoming webinar series on grassland restoration across Europe looks very interesting. A series of weekly talks by experts in the field, running from 6 Nov to 18 Dec. See below for info on speakers, topics, free registration etc. www.interregnorthsea.eu/expbio/news/... #GenerationRestoration

Webinars series: Grassland restoration perspective and knowledge

www.interregnorthsea.eu

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James Harding-Morris @bsbicountries.bsky.social · 5d

Over the past couple of months I've repeated in various talks that 11 of our endemic plant species have gone extinct.

I was delighted to read in the most recent BSBI News that one of these, the Glenridding Hawkweed, last seen in 1953, has been rediscovered!!

📷: Mark Lynes

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 5d

Fabulous young little red Blackening Waxcap growing on a road verge on the North York Moors

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 5d

A Bolete from the weekend, where I managed to include the stem in the photo only to find when I look at it on the computer screen that it's white because something has eaten the surface off and it should be brown and stripy like the smaller one.

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

sooo steep Barry, so very steeep - all the steepness.
I mean honestly I've just looked at the street photos and you can angle it to look properly steep

Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

I've only really consciously seen it this year (twice!) so the petiole thing has been in the front of my mind, though it's the flower that I notice first as 'odd'.

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

that might be S. x ambigua?
Marsh should have sessile middle leaves and I can see some petiole in the photo

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Debbie Alston @debbie1alston.bsky.social · 6d

Marsh Mallow in flower this week on Rye Harbour nature reserve #wildflowerhour

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Barry 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 💚 🌿 @wonkyeggs.bsky.social · 6d

Alpine Cotula (Cotula alpina) on a North York Moors National Park road verge yesterday.

Rabbit poo for scale.

#WildflowerHour

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, wondered why the ones in my pics didn't look like they were flowering and its because they are seed heads ... 😬

Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

were the cyclists all going downhill or what? If it wasn't steep they would have cycled the other way, but it was ... so they didn't
QED

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

😂

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

only spotted them I think because we were walking back up a fairly steep roadside and so I was walking a bit slower than usual and any excuse to stop for a bit (walked down the road looking at the waxcaps and spindles on the other side)

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

love that photo with your feet

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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 6d

More from the Wellcome collection.
Morcella crassipes, by R. Baker, April. 1896, at Claverton. crassipes meaning thick-footed or thick-stemmed.
One of its vernacular names is Big-foot Morel.
Possibly painted at an art class in the Severn region of Clevedon, Avon. @botanicalmartin.bsky.social

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

so small, so very far down, such a long way back up after taking a photograph 😭 I would have been quite happy with just the one type of very small fungus if I'm honest.

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 6d

Alpine Cotula (Cotula alpina) is currently a fairly rare non-native though abundant on some road verges on the North York Moors & probably spreading. Didn't seem to be adversely affecting the fungi which is good. #WildFlowerHour
Link to BSBI Atlas - plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

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