Stephen Plummer
@stephenplummer.bsky.social
Life-long passionate learner (and woeful photographer) of all things wild & wonderful!
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In 2024 I spent a day in Margaret’s company on an Alchemilla workshop where she climbed over a 5-bar gate and was up and down on her knees demonstrating various plant features. In the afternoon I held her hand as we walked beside the River Tees. What an amazing woman!
In 2024 I spent a day in Margaret’s company on an Alchemilla workshop where she climbed over a 5-bar gate and was up and down on her knees demonstrating various plant features. In the afternoon I held her hand as we walked beside the River Tees. What an amazing woman!
Teesdale botanist and mountain rescue team founder turns 100
Dr Margaret Bradshaw receives a card from King Charles and Queen Camilla on her 100th birthday.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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In 2024 I spent a day in Margaret’s company on an Alchemilla workshop where she climbed over a 5-bar gate and was up and down on her knees demonstrating various plant features. In the afternoon I held her hand as we walked beside the River Tees. What an amazing woman!
In 2024 I spent a day in Margaret’s company on an Alchemilla workshop where she climbed over a 5-bar gate and was up and down on her knees demonstrating various plant features. In the afternoon I held her hand as we walked beside the River Tees. What an amazing woman!
A wonderful suite of winter-flying moths on the Clophill Lakes NR visitor centre: Spring Usher, Winter Moth & Early Moth.
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
A wonderful suite of winter-flying moths on the Clophill Lakes NR visitor centre: Spring Usher, Winter Moth & Early Moth.
When I prepared for Saturday’s New Year Plant Hunt at Clophill Lakes NR I thought that 15 species of flowering plants would be our maximum total, so I was amazed (and a tad alarmed) to record 28 species with 25 people present.
Field Penny-cress, Thyme-leaved Speedwell and Musk Mallow pictured here.
Field Penny-cress, Thyme-leaved Speedwell and Musk Mallow pictured here.
January 6, 2026 at 10:41 PM
When I prepared for Saturday’s New Year Plant Hunt at Clophill Lakes NR I thought that 15 species of flowering plants would be our maximum total, so I was amazed (and a tad alarmed) to record 28 species with 25 people present.
Field Penny-cress, Thyme-leaved Speedwell and Musk Mallow pictured here.
Field Penny-cress, Thyme-leaved Speedwell and Musk Mallow pictured here.
My son, John, really wanted to experience the weird and wonderful Starfish Fungus at Oxshott Common in Surrey. Work prevented a day visit, so we went down at night: crazy, but fun. The fruiting fungi are going over now but a single egg is showing promise!
December 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My son, John, really wanted to experience the weird and wonderful Starfish Fungus at Oxshott Common in Surrey. Work prevented a day visit, so we went down at night: crazy, but fun. The fruiting fungi are going over now but a single egg is showing promise!
Following the visit to West Cowes Cemetery I took the chain-link ferry across the river in order to visit East Cowes Cemetery where this beauty was waiting for me: Podoscypha multizonata 😃
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Following the visit to West Cowes Cemetery I took the chain-link ferry across the river in order to visit East Cowes Cemetery where this beauty was waiting for me: Podoscypha multizonata 😃
Clavulinopsis umbrinella under Cedar in Northwood Cemetery, West Cowes, Isle of Wight this morning
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Clavulinopsis umbrinella under Cedar in Northwood Cemetery, West Cowes, Isle of Wight this morning
Pterula multifida, a birthday gift at Parkhurst Forest, Isle of Wight 😃
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Pterula multifida, a birthday gift at Parkhurst Forest, Isle of Wight 😃
It was nice to catch up with one of the Clophill Lakes Otters this afternoon, if briefly!
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It was nice to catch up with one of the Clophill Lakes Otters this afternoon, if briefly!
Wow, wow, wow: Mycena pseudocorticola and, finally, Mycena meliigena, occurring together on moss-covered oak branches in quantity (this is just a small section). A friend spent years looking for M. meliigina every time she came across M. pseudocorticola! [Rushmere CP, Bucks]
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Wow, wow, wow: Mycena pseudocorticola and, finally, Mycena meliigena, occurring together on moss-covered oak branches in quantity (this is just a small section). A friend spent years looking for M. meliigina every time she came across M. pseudocorticola! [Rushmere CP, Bucks]
Piggyback Rosegill (Volvariella surrecta) on Clouded Funnel near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, today.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Piggyback Rosegill (Volvariella surrecta) on Clouded Funnel near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, today.
Some nice fungi on today’s Bucks Fungus Group foray: Violet Webcap, Olive Oysterling and Toothed Jelly Fungus (The Webcap was picked up from another site on the way).
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Some nice fungi on today’s Bucks Fungus Group foray: Violet Webcap, Olive Oysterling and Toothed Jelly Fungus (The Webcap was picked up from another site on the way).
2 weird, wonderful and rare fungus species from the BMS Autumn Foray: Squamanita paradoxa taking over the fruiting body of its host, and Hypomyces leoticola growing from the base of its ‘Jelly Babies’ host (the slimy green ‘tongue’)!
October 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
2 weird, wonderful and rare fungus species from the BMS Autumn Foray: Squamanita paradoxa taking over the fruiting body of its host, and Hypomyces leoticola growing from the base of its ‘Jelly Babies’ host (the slimy green ‘tongue’)!
Clavaria zollingeri (Violet Coral), my 2001st fungus species, but the one that I was most hoping to catch up with during my time in Scotland .
Turns out it was on the lawn of the estate where we are staying…it also turns out that it should be called Clavaria violaceopulchre as zollingeri is in Java!
Turns out it was on the lawn of the estate where we are staying…it also turns out that it should be called Clavaria violaceopulchre as zollingeri is in Java!
October 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Clavaria zollingeri (Violet Coral), my 2001st fungus species, but the one that I was most hoping to catch up with during my time in Scotland .
Turns out it was on the lawn of the estate where we are staying…it also turns out that it should be called Clavaria violaceopulchre as zollingeri is in Java!
Turns out it was on the lawn of the estate where we are staying…it also turns out that it should be called Clavaria violaceopulchre as zollingeri is in Java!
The hall that we’re working in for the British Mycological Society’s Autumn Foray in Dumfries is cavernous!!
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The hall that we’re working in for the British Mycological Society’s Autumn Foray in Dumfries is cavernous!!
First evening at the BMS’s Autumn Foray based in Dumfries and the signs are already promising with lots of species of fungi just outside the front door of the lab. We were also treated to a show-and-tell by Thomas Lassoe
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
First evening at the BMS’s Autumn Foray based in Dumfries and the signs are already promising with lots of species of fungi just outside the front door of the lab. We were also treated to a show-and-tell by Thomas Lassoe
It was a privilege to be a part of the #UKFungus day at College Lakes NR and to see the passion of the Bucks Fungus Group members and the enthusiasm of those visiting
October 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It was a privilege to be a part of the #UKFungus day at College Lakes NR and to see the passion of the Bucks Fungus Group members and the enthusiasm of those visiting
A mystery Bolete from Pullingshill Wood, Marlow, that’s causing some excitement. It will be DNA-sequenced and, hopefully, the species will be revealed!
October 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A mystery Bolete from Pullingshill Wood, Marlow, that’s causing some excitement. It will be DNA-sequenced and, hopefully, the species will be revealed!
An amazing foray in Pullingshill Wood, Bucks, this morning, including Rubroboletus rhodoxanthus and possible Suillelus mendax
October 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
An amazing foray in Pullingshill Wood, Bucks, this morning, including Rubroboletus rhodoxanthus and possible Suillelus mendax
It was a privilege to spend a day with the renowned Libby Houston in the Avon Gorge, especially under her special Hornbeam: Sorbus x houstoniae
September 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It was a privilege to spend a day with the renowned Libby Houston in the Avon Gorge, especially under her special Hornbeam: Sorbus x houstoniae
Chuffed to have just found a Shieldbug species new to Bedfordshire: Southern Green Shieldbug at Clophill Lakes NR
September 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Chuffed to have just found a Shieldbug species new to Bedfordshire: Southern Green Shieldbug at Clophill Lakes NR
It looks like an Arrhenia that I found during the BMS's 2024 Autumn Foray may be new for Britain: Arrhenia glauca [Yew Tree Brake Cemetery, Cinderford]
September 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It looks like an Arrhenia that I found during the BMS's 2024 Autumn Foray may be new for Britain: Arrhenia glauca [Yew Tree Brake Cemetery, Cinderford]
Boletus satanus - Satan’s Bolete - at last!!😅
September 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Boletus satanus - Satan’s Bolete - at last!!😅
Black-footed Polypore, Rooting Shank and a frog at Clophill Lakes this afternoon!
September 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Black-footed Polypore, Rooting Shank and a frog at Clophill Lakes this afternoon!
Subclytia rotundiventris - a Tachinid fly at Clophill Lakes this afternoon
September 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Subclytia rotundiventris - a Tachinid fly at Clophill Lakes this afternoon
The best photo I can get of Sorbus proctoriana - I think it’s the only known one in the world! (Avon Gorge)
September 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The best photo I can get of Sorbus proctoriana - I think it’s the only known one in the world! (Avon Gorge)