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Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social · 10h

After the disappointment of Wisley’s Fungus Day being cancelled by Storm Amy, yesterday I had the privilege of doing a Fungus walk with Liz, the Principal Plant Pathologist for the RHS. It was so interesting and informative. These are just a few we spotted. 🌱 #mushroomMonday #fungusfriends

A collage of four photos from yesterday’s walk. The first is a cluster of sulphur tufts, the second an innocuous looking but toxic Deathcap, the third a Fly Agaric, also toxic and the fourth Coral fungi looking as though it belongs in the sea.

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · Sep 10

THIS WEEK HAS SAUCE 4

Stunning fossils in sedimentary rocks reveal a new and co-oldest Early Cretaceous gilled mushroom-forming fungus

Edaphagaricites conicus gen. nov. et sp. nov.

academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 2h

My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now!
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends

Dark blue hardback cover of RHS Fungi for Gardeners on a set of shelves of gardening books in a book shop

Jassy Drakulic standing next to the bookshelves featuring her new book, smiling

Red stained hyphae of nitrous bonnet with pointed ends that bend away from the stem at right angles

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 5d

🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation.

Read more from @mongabay.com :

Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of…

news.mongabay.com

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much Linda - I found you had put it on my desk for me when I was in the office yesterday. Very moved by this kind gesture and I love the intricate design. I will wear with great pride when I take the book on tour round the RHS gardens!

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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 11d

🎲 Looking for something new for game night? Why not try one of these fungus board games — forage, grow, and strategize your way through the through the fungal kingdom! Reviews in this #UKFungusDay blog by Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social: ukfungusday.co.uk/fungusboardgames

Fungus board games | UK Fungus Day

Many games incorporate fungi for visual or narrative flair, but these three titles go further—creating immersive gameplay rooted in actual mycological processes.

ukfungusday.co.uk

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 10d

Gutted it's off! Would have been fantastic working with you to inspire the visitors. What a beautiful brooch 😍 such a wonderful idea, I'm touched

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 11d

Larch bolete btw! Suillus grevillei

Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 22d

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

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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 24d

🍄🌱 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

A group of orange mushrooms growing in grass next to a dry-stone wall.

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · 22d

Awesome!! Thank you 🥰 gonna be a blast 🎉

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 24d

🍄 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...

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Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart @smnstuttgart.bsky.social · Aug 14

@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!

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · Aug 22

*sedges!

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Conker, covered in dark soil, cut open showing marbled pale flesh inside

In tact soil covered conker and a tangle of stringy dark rhizomorphs next to it, beneath dead grass leaves

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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · Jul 18

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-...