Ian Senior
@ians4ad.bsky.social
4AD nut, shoegazer, ex Plant Biologist now Web Developer at Oxford Uni. Committee Member of the Friend's of Earlham Cemetery. Fungi botherer & flora finder with some of Norfolks best botanists & field mycologists
Mastodon: @ians4AD@mas.to
Twitter: @Ians4AD
Mastodon: @ians4AD@mas.to
Twitter: @Ians4AD
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If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
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Go to a granite outcrop and look closely, you may just find the tiny Adders Tongue Fern #Ophioglossum lusitanicum! Throwing up their specialised fertile frond these ferns are an unusual group, needing a symbiotic relationship with fungi to grow from spore to spore forming mature plant!
August 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Go to a granite outcrop and look closely, you may just find the tiny Adders Tongue Fern #Ophioglossum lusitanicum! Throwing up their specialised fertile frond these ferns are an unusual group, needing a symbiotic relationship with fungi to grow from spore to spore forming mature plant!
Great looking beast!
What’s better than finding a #Persoonia coriacea, Finding #Polyzosteria mitchelli! In my opinion Australias prettiest Roach! These are Diurnal species found in the semi arid areas of Australia, and of course it’s a warning to predators and they will spray a bad smelling liquid!
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Great looking beast!
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#Orobanche minor time, this weedy species can be found all over Perth and many areas around the world! Now they are a ubiquitous weed parasitising a wide variety of plants, most likely enjoying the Nasturtiums in the garden bed!
October 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
#Orobanche minor time, this weedy species can be found all over Perth and many areas around the world! Now they are a ubiquitous weed parasitising a wide variety of plants, most likely enjoying the Nasturtiums in the garden bed!
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Sooooooo shiny!! Really is obsurd how shiny #Elythranthera brunonisflowers are! They really do seem to look as if they have been coated in enamel!
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Sooooooo shiny!! Really is obsurd how shiny #Elythranthera brunonisflowers are! They really do seem to look as if they have been coated in enamel!
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Tiny little predatory plants! Gotta love the tiny Bryastrum group of Droseras! This one here is #Drosera spilos a tiny one notable for its red markings at the base of their petals!
November 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Tiny little predatory plants! Gotta love the tiny Bryastrum group of Droseras! This one here is #Drosera spilos a tiny one notable for its red markings at the base of their petals!
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Monday #Mushroom added to the English list last week and one to look out for at the moment, Clavaria calabrica. Looking a bit like Clavaria fumosa but with “dividing fingers”, the texture is more wax crayon like than C. fumosa. #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Mycology #Fungi #UKWildlife
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Monday #Mushroom added to the English list last week and one to look out for at the moment, Clavaria calabrica. Looking a bit like Clavaria fumosa but with “dividing fingers”, the texture is more wax crayon like than C. fumosa. #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Mycology #Fungi #UKWildlife
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🌍 Craterellus cornucopioides
🇬🇧 Black trumpet
🇩🇪 Totentrompete
🇨🇿 Stroček trubkovitý
🇸🇰 Lievik trúbkovitý
🇵🇱 Lejkowiec dęty
🇬🇧 Black trumpet
🇩🇪 Totentrompete
🇨🇿 Stroček trubkovitý
🇸🇰 Lievik trúbkovitý
🇵🇱 Lejkowiec dęty
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🌍 Craterellus cornucopioides
🇬🇧 Black trumpet
🇩🇪 Totentrompete
🇨🇿 Stroček trubkovitý
🇸🇰 Lievik trúbkovitý
🇵🇱 Lejkowiec dęty
🇬🇧 Black trumpet
🇩🇪 Totentrompete
🇨🇿 Stroček trubkovitý
🇸🇰 Lievik trúbkovitý
🇵🇱 Lejkowiec dęty
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So many Marasmius hudsonii in the woods. #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
So many Marasmius hudsonii in the woods. #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
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Waxcap 28 - Limestone Waxcap (Hygrocybe calciphila). A small orange species with a finely squamulose cap. Only found on calcareous substrates. All the small squamulose species are better confirmed with microscopy.
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Waxcap 28 - Limestone Waxcap (Hygrocybe calciphila). A small orange species with a finely squamulose cap. Only found on calcareous substrates. All the small squamulose species are better confirmed with microscopy.
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Sphaerobolus stellatus such a cute little fungus! #FungiFriends
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Sphaerobolus stellatus such a cute little fungus! #FungiFriends
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Waxcap 27 - Spangle Waxcap (Hygrocybe insipda). A pretty variable species but has an eye and strong striations on the cap, usually alternating red and yellow towards the cap edge. Stipe is wet and often red above. Lack of taste separates from Bitter and stem being wet rather sticky from Glutinous.
November 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Waxcap 27 - Spangle Waxcap (Hygrocybe insipda). A pretty variable species but has an eye and strong striations on the cap, usually alternating red and yellow towards the cap edge. Stipe is wet and often red above. Lack of taste separates from Bitter and stem being wet rather sticky from Glutinous.
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CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."
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Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
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November 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Caladenia attingens - the Forest Mantis orchid
Relatively common in the southwest of Western Australia, this orchid is quite distinctive with its broad labellum and upswept lateral sepals
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature
Relatively common in the southwest of Western Australia, this orchid is quite distinctive with its broad labellum and upswept lateral sepals
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Caladenia attingens - the Forest Mantis orchid
Relatively common in the southwest of Western Australia, this orchid is quite distinctive with its broad labellum and upswept lateral sepals
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature
Relatively common in the southwest of Western Australia, this orchid is quite distinctive with its broad labellum and upswept lateral sepals
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature
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Caladenia plicata - the Crab-lipped Spider orchid
Found in the forests of southwest Western Australia, this orchid has a very distinctive labellum with long fringing at the sides
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #natuveplants #inaturalist #nature
Found in the forests of southwest Western Australia, this orchid has a very distinctive labellum with long fringing at the sides
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #natuveplants #inaturalist #nature
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Caladenia plicata - the Crab-lipped Spider orchid
Found in the forests of southwest Western Australia, this orchid has a very distinctive labellum with long fringing at the sides
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #natuveplants #inaturalist #nature
Found in the forests of southwest Western Australia, this orchid has a very distinctive labellum with long fringing at the sides
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #natuveplants #inaturalist #nature
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Today I recorded 272 Scarce Tufted-sedge (Carex cespitosa) today — a 72.5% survival rate at Panshanger Park! It’s the driest site and completely rain-fed, which made things tough this summer.
NE Species Recovery Capital Grant, awarded to HMWT.
NE Species Recovery Capital Grant, awarded to HMWT.
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Today I recorded 272 Scarce Tufted-sedge (Carex cespitosa) today — a 72.5% survival rate at Panshanger Park! It’s the driest site and completely rain-fed, which made things tough this summer.
NE Species Recovery Capital Grant, awarded to HMWT.
NE Species Recovery Capital Grant, awarded to HMWT.
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Excrescence on over-fertilised arable soil, Peziza [vesiculosa] swells and fructifies, brews spores, awaiting rain.
West Norfolk #fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
West Norfolk #fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Excrescence on over-fertilised arable soil, Peziza [vesiculosa] swells and fructifies, brews spores, awaiting rain.
West Norfolk #fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
West Norfolk #fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Tailed leek orchids (Prasophyllum appendiculatum) near Genoa, VIC. Flower colour is quite variable in this rare species with a mix of yellow, brown, red + purple forms often growing together. Only saw a couple of plants out on my last visit but may have been a week or so too early this year #orchids
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tailed leek orchids (Prasophyllum appendiculatum) near Genoa, VIC. Flower colour is quite variable in this rare species with a mix of yellow, brown, red + purple forms often growing together. Only saw a couple of plants out on my last visit but may have been a week or so too early this year #orchids
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November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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A few nice fungal bits and pieces on a walk from home in South Norfolk this afternoon. Stubble Rosegill, Oak Bracket, Sulphur Disco and Wet Rot
#fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
#fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A few nice fungal bits and pieces on a walk from home in South Norfolk this afternoon. Stubble Rosegill, Oak Bracket, Sulphur Disco and Wet Rot
#fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
#fungi @norfolknats.bsky.social
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I don't often see Orange peel fungus (Aleuria aurantia) & I've never seen as much as this so, even though it was a bit past its best & chewed around the edges, I was very chuffed to find this in a Cardiff park on Thursday. #FungiUK #FungiFriends
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I don't often see Orange peel fungus (Aleuria aurantia) & I've never seen as much as this so, even though it was a bit past its best & chewed around the edges, I was very chuffed to find this in a Cardiff park on Thursday. #FungiUK #FungiFriends
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Waxcap 26 - Grey Waxcap (Cuphophyllus lacmus). A beautiful and uncommon species. The decurrent gills are a smoky grey and the cap a very stunning lilac grey. The cap often has some striations.
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Waxcap 26 - Grey Waxcap (Cuphophyllus lacmus). A beautiful and uncommon species. The decurrent gills are a smoky grey and the cap a very stunning lilac grey. The cap often has some striations.
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A fantastic presentation on some hardcore survey work in the Scottish uplands here. Great to hear from Gus Routledge, who is unfortunately not on Bluesky ☹️, but evidently still doing inspirational field botany alongside @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social youtu.be/RZFv8lSfmj8?...
Tough tufts to tally: Scottish Tufted Saxifrage Survey 2025
YouTube video by Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
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November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A fantastic presentation on some hardcore survey work in the Scottish uplands here. Great to hear from Gus Routledge, who is unfortunately not on Bluesky ☹️, but evidently still doing inspirational field botany alongside @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social youtu.be/RZFv8lSfmj8?...