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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 5h

The pattern of the apothecia on this crustose lichen is eye catching #fungifriends

Grey lichen with black small apothecia in a bullseye pattern, found in North Carolina

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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 4h

Entries to this year's South Downs photo competition close on Tuesday 31 October.

There's a top prize of £250 for the winning entry along with special youth and wildlife categories.

Full details 👉www.southdowns.gov.uk/care-for/photo-comp

📷 Ron De'Ath
📍 Queen Elizabeth Country Park

A lone tree with beautiful autumnal colours on the leaves of orange and yellow

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

For #HillfortsWednesday, here's Segsbury Camp (also known as Letcombe Castle) #Oxfordshire

A gloriously tactile painting of the hillfort by the supremely talented @annadillon.bsky.social from 2010

annadillon.com/segsbury.html

For more of her amazing work see: annadillon.com 😊👍

A painting of the grass and tree covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with brooding clouds in the distance

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 2d

There were two in that spot. Both quite large and in pretty good shape.

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, they have a great colour. They were very bright for quite a grey day.

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Helen McAra @hedgerownibbler.bsky.social · 10d

Yesterday’s Fly agaric was beautiful but today I bring you the badly named Blue Roundhead (Stropharia caerulea) - a little stunner!
Surely its name should something that matches the beauty of this gorgeous mushroom? Look at that shaggy cap and stem, and the unbelievable aquamarine colour! #ukfungi

Two aquamarine coloured small fungi with shaggy edges to their caps and with matching stems, growing in leaf litter under a canopy of autumnal bracken.

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 4d

Recent group sightings.

🍄 #FungiFriends #UKFungusDay

Small brown mushrooms with white stalks.

Sulphur Tut mushrooms growing from a tree stump.

Mushrooms growing from a fallen branch in woodland.

Egg-like mushroom caps emerging from leaf litter.

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 4d

A startling shot of colour in an increasingly brown woodland.

🍄 #FungiFriends #UKFungusDay

Looking straight down at a Fly Agaric mushroom. It is bright red-to-orange with white spots against brown leaf litter.

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 4d

Radiating.

🍄 #FungiFriends #UKFungusDay

Close-up of the top of a mushroom with a brown jumbo in the centre and radiating pattern of brown scales.

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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 4d

🍄 ⭐It's #UKFungusDay !⭐ 🍄 If you've taken some great fungus photos, why not submit your favourite to the Photography Competition. Free entry for all ages, amateur & professional categories. Deadline: 13th October. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/photography
Thanks to competition sponsors: Caley Brothers !

Photo of white mushroom caps on a black background with words "Capture your favourite fungus on camera! Photography Competition. Deadline 1th October 2025. ukfungusday.co.uk. Image by Natasha Scott."

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 5d

Find out more about the collection here ➡️ lib-archives.ex.ac.uk/Record.aspx?...

And because they're so charming, here are some further illustrations by Edward Parfitt of fungi found in Devon!

📷 EUL MS 35

#UKFungusDay #Fungi #Fungus #Devon #Archives

Opened page in a notebook showing a watercolour illustration of a turreted starry puffball fungus, with several lines of manuscript notes underneath.

Opened page of a notebook showing an illustration of what might possibly be a russula emetic fungus with a white stem and red cap, and eight lines of manuscript notes underneath.

Opened notebook showing notes and illustration of a fungus painted in a bright orange colour.

Opened notebook to a full-page water-colour illustration of a giant polypore fungus, painted in shades of brown. Includes some notes underneath.

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks :)

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking through.

🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

A pale yellow mushroom with part of the white erm, cuff still attached to the cap. Growing in brown leaf litter.

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 5d

The Slime Mould stump has all sorts going on.

🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #SlimeMould

Close-up of tiny brown slime mould sporangia.

Close-up of tiny red slime mould sporangia.

Close-up of tiny white slime mould sporangia.

Close-up of tiny orange slime mould sporangia.

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 5d

Nice catch.

#Autumn #Sussex

A golden brown leaf caught on a spider’s web with raindrops.

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 5d

This old fallen tree in the woods makes a little haven for Shaggy Scalycaps.

🍄 #FungiFriday #FunguFriends