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Liz Downey

@lizlouise.bsky.social

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Interested in nature and science, wildflowers & fungi 🌿🍄 Art and photography | History | LOTR 🧝‍♀️ I have a black Staffy called Ruby 🐕‍🦺 #iPhonePhotography

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · Nov 20

Finally! Brown mushrooms & wild flowers - these are a selection of Bonnets, Bitter Oysterlings, a Fibrecap, & Birch Boletes 🤎🍄‍🟫 #Fungi @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 9d

Plums and Custard (Tricholomopsis rutilans) at Wayford Woods 🩷💛 #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 10d

A couple of beautiful Webcaps from Somerset 💜🤎 for #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 10d

Shaggy Inkcap, AKA The Lawyer’s Wig - Coprinus comatus 🤍 #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 12d

Found a beautiful Brittlegill & have been to a workshop today to try & get it sequenced to find out which species it is - fingers crossed it works! #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Piotr Gąsiorowski @piotrgasiorowski.bsky.social · 14d

Geastrum pectinatum (EN beret earthstar, PL gwiazdosz długoszyjkowy). Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland).
#grzyby #fungi #fungifriends #mycology

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 15d

Lots more found in the area today! 🤩

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 15d

It’s a rare species so i was trying to get across that despite accidentally picking one, there was another there untouched, & I left the 2nd to release its spores

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 15d

So true! The sickly pale cap looks especially unappetising 🤢

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 16d

It’s not cheap but i feel much more confident with ID since using it - Mushrooms & toadstools of Britain & Ireland by Kibby (Volume 1 for Boletes).

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 16d

Which book do you use, Nicholas?

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 16d

Have always wanted to see this one 😍 Devil’s Bolete - Rubroboletus satanas 👹 - I actually picked this thinking it was Caloboletus radicans & was surprised to find it was this! Have left it with another one growing next to it #Fungi #Mushrooms

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 17d

Seven Boletids in a single day in a West Yorkshire valley, from top left clockwize - Suillus grevillei, Imleria badia, Xerocomellus cisalpinus, Leccinum scabrum, L. cyaneobasileucum, Xerocomellus pruinatus, Neoboletus erythropus.

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 17d

I’m definitely obsessed with mushrooms - now have mushroom ornaments in my cactus pots 😆🌵🍄
#MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 18d

Milkcaps & Brittlegills - my favourites to try & identify - i think these are Russula pseudointegra, Lactarius azonites, L. zonarius & L. semisanguifluus #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 18d

Lots of Boletes in Somerset - Lurid Bolete, some kind of Ruby Bolete, Weeping Bolete & Matte Bolete #Fungi #Mushrooms 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 20d

Hahaha I knew it reminded me of something! That’s exactly it 🤣

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks Helen! 🙏🏻😃

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 20d

Colourful mushrooms for #FungiFriday Twig Parachute, Burgundydrop Bonnet, Scarletina & a Pinkgill #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 20d

Bonnet mushrooms including Lilac Bonnet & Rosy Bonnet for #FungiFriday

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 23d

Oh interesting thank you! 🙏🏻 I’ll look that one up - annoyingly I didn’t take it for microscopy as there was only 1 & I felt bad picking it ☹️

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 23d

Stunning, nice to see more than one growing together!

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David Stevens @davidst999.bsky.social · 23d

Collared Earth Stars (Geastrum triplex) now appearing out of the leaf litter in woodlands. These were seen today in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Duddingston and Bawsinch Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon @scotwildlife.bsky.social

A pair of Collared Earth Stars (Geastrum triplex). One a little ahead of the other in development. Found today in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Duddingston and Bawsinch Nature Reserve, Edinburgh.

Another pair of Collared Earth Stars. Both just about ready to open. Found today in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Duddingston and Bawsinch Nature Reserve, Edinburgh.

A fully developed Collared Earth Star. Also seen today in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Duddingston and Bawsinch Nature Reserve, Edinburgh.

Another fully developed Collared Earth Star. Also seen today in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Duddingston and Bawsinch Nature Reserve, Edinburgh.

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 24d

The beautiful & rare white Penny Bun - Boletus edulis var. alba, in Somerset 🤍🤩 #Fungi #Mushrooms #MushroomMonday @britmycolsoc.org.uk

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 24d

🧵 Another tiny mushroom (hopefully the top photo shows how tiny!) - the Holly Parachute, distinguished by the long (well, up to 1 millimetre) hairs covering its cap & the fact it can only be found on Holly leaves 🤩 #Fungi #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 24d

@mossgatherer.bsky.social think you’ll like these!