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Bob McIntosh
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Natural world of Penicuik, geology, geo collections 🇺🇦
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 11h
Fantastic!
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 2d
Yes
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 2d
Honey fungus #fungi
Three honey fungus splayed out, largest in the centre, smaller on on the left and smallest on the right. Scaly dark brown caps, thick scaly stems. Growing through a bed of bright green mosses
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 2d
Wolf's milk #slimemould
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 2d
Wolf's milk #slimemould
six pinkish-orange, cushion-like fruiting bodies arranged in a two-thirds circle. The rest is deformed/disintegrated with small brighter orange blobs of liquid. Growing on a soft bed of green mosses
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 2d
Shaggy scalycaps #fungi
Two shaggy scalycap fungi next to each other rounded conical cap, thick scaly stem. Background is bark of a beech tree. Growing in mosses, with curved autumnal leaves sprinkled around
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 2d
Earthstar in the garden #fungi
A closeup oblique angled photo of an opened earthstar 5 thick points to the star, centre is a round 'puffball with a hole at the top. Growing in woodland floor debris
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 2d
Its one of these that first drew my attention to slime moulds 10 years ago, 19th October 2015! scotfot.smugmug.com/Slimemoulds/...
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 3d
#slimemould moved from a few days ago
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 3d
#slimemould
Orange/purplish slime mould, past its best growing on pine needles
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 3d
#fungi
A group of six fungi - a gradation down in size, two largest at the back, four in front, getting smaller from left to right. Smooth conical caps, thickish stems
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 3d
Autumn colours
Looking across a pond to a regular/even-sided tall triangular shaped tree displaying yellow, some yellow-orange autumnal coloured leaves
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 3d
#fungi
A small group of fungi, with grey scaly stems and unopened brown caps growing on rotten wood
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 4d
fungi common names are an entertainment!
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 5d
Porcelain fungus #fungi
A single porcelain fungus viewed from underneath showing translucency of the cap and the intricate nature of the gills
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 5d
group of shaggy scalycaps #fungi
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 5d
Porcelain fungus #fungi
Looking down on a group of white with hint of brown, overlapping porcelain fungus. Sprinkled on top are a few autumnal brown beech leaves
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 5d
Candlesnuff fungus #fungi
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 5d
Sulphur tufts #fungi
A compact group of overlapping sulphur tufts in the crevice of a log. A few have been partially eaten.
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 5d
Shaggy scalycaps #fungi
Two shaggy scalycaps and one behind. Noted for their extreme scalyness of the caps and stems
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 5d
Turkish oak acorn cup
A spiny acorn cup in the bottom left sitting on moss. On the other side and attached are green waxy oak leaves
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 5d
Graded #fungi
A group of four fungi descending on a bare log. each smaller than the previous. Just behind the fungi is a yellow/brown beech leaf
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 6d
Inkcaps at the inky stage #fungi
A group of inkcaps most of which have deliquesced and have very inky caps at the end of long thin stems that have a roughly radial disposition
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 6d
Inkcaps #fungi
Inkcaps that were seen a few days ago are are now past. showing clumps of thin stems collapsed and with now inky formless caps
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 6d
Rosy bonnet #fungi
A pink fungus with whitish pink stem and conical cap. At its base and slightly to the left is a smaller on. On the right, is a small brown fungi. They are growing in a beech woodland floor old leaves and a beechmast to the left
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