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Jassy Drakulic
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RHS Senior Plant Pathologist and resident mycologist based at Wisley
Author of the RHS DK book Fungi for Gardeners:
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Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social · Oct 13
My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now!
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
Dark blue hardback cover of RHS Fungi for Gardeners on a set of shelves of gardening books in a book shop Jassy Drakulic standing next to the bookshelves featuring her new book, smiling Red stained hyphae of nitrous bonnet with pointed ends that bend away from the stem at right angles
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Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe....

www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...
Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See… - Plantlife
Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be the best in Europe. Discover the pressures these colourful fungi and their habitats face...
www.plantlife.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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After the disappointment of Wisley’s Fungus Day being cancelled by Storm Amy, yesterday I had the privilege of doing a Fungus walk with Liz, the Principal Plant Pathologist for the RHS. It was so interesting and informative. These are just a few we spotted. 🌱 #mushroomMonday #fungusfriends
A collage of four photos from yesterday’s walk. The first is a cluster of sulphur tufts, the second an innocuous looking but toxic Deathcap, the third a Fly Agaric, also toxic and the fourth Coral fungi looking as though it belongs in the sea.
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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THIS WEEK HAS SAUCE 4

Stunning fossils in sedimentary rocks reveal a new and co-oldest Early Cretaceous gilled mushroom-forming fungus

Edaphagaricites conicus gen. nov. et sp. nov.

academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...
September 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
jassydrak.bsky.social
My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now!
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
Dark blue hardback cover of RHS Fungi for Gardeners on a set of shelves of gardening books in a book shop Jassy Drakulic standing next to the bookshelves featuring her new book, smiling Red stained hyphae of nitrous bonnet with pointed ends that bend away from the stem at right angles
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation.

Read more from @mongabay.com :
Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of…
news.mongabay.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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britmycolsoc.org.uk
🎲 Looking for something new for game night? Why not try one of these fungus board games — forage, grow, and strategize your way through the through the fungal kingdom! Reviews in this #UKFungusDay blog by Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social: ukfungusday.co.uk/fungusboardgames
Fungus board games | UK Fungus Day
Many games incorporate fungi for visual or narrative flair, but these three titles go further—creating immersive gameplay rooted in actual mycological processes.
ukfungusday.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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A before and after of some fun early autumn fungi at RHS Wisley:
Bolete tbd species and Shaggy inkcap Coprinus comatus.
One will become ink for #UKFungusDay artwork and the other has made a nice ochre spore print
#gardens #fungi #mycology #outreach
September 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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britmycolsoc.org.uk
🍄🌱 Gardens can be fungal hotspots — if we let them! In this blog for #UKFungusDay, Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social at The RHS explores how garden practices can encourage (or suppress) fungi & why that matters for #SoilHealth & #Biodiversity. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiingardens
#Gardening
A group of orange mushrooms growing in grass next to a dry-stone wall.
September 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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biologicalrecording.co.uk
🍄 What’s the secret life of fungi in your garden?

Discover how they help plants thrive with Dr @jassydrak.bsky.social in How Fungi Make Gardens Flourish
📅 14 Jan 2026 | Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium

👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717...
September 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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@fundive-fungi.bsky.social is a Europe-wide project to better understand & protect fungi. Find, photograph & document fungi and join us to help reveal Europe's fungal diversity!

Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check https://fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved/ for more information!
Group of purple fungi.
August 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Marbled interior, smells sweet... Not a truffle, but a conker full of honey fungus!
This one was being used to test whether honey fungus affects ornamental grasses/wedges which have become popular horticultural plants
#ArmiArmy #fungi #planthealth
Conker, covered in dark soil, cut open showing marbled pale flesh inside In tact soil covered conker and a tangle of stringy dark rhizomorphs next to it, beneath dead grass leaves
August 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The Midas mushroom paper is out from the Pringle lab - the story of how cultivated fungi can escape and cause environmental harm.
We need more native fungal strains available for cultivation so home growers can grow without these risks
www.sciencealert.com/cuisine-fad-...
Cuisine Fad Unleashes Invasive Threat Into The US Wilderness
Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, delicious and easy to grow at home from mushroom kits.
www.sciencealert.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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It´s all about fungi!
Abortiporus biennis
#fungifriends #mycology #blood
June 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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It´s all about fungi!
Abortiporus biennis
#fungifriends #mycology #macro
June 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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It´s all about fungi!
Abortiporus biennis
#fungifriends #mycology #macro
June 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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It´s all about fungi!
Abortiporus biennis
#fungifriends #mycology #macro
June 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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It´s all about old water towers that look like fungi!
old water tower in Saxony (Alt-Ottenhain)
#watertower
July 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Albertiniella polyporicola, a tiny fungus (compare with pore size) on the underside of Ganoderma fruiting bodies.
#fungi #fungifriends #mycology
Albertiniella polyporicola on the underside of old Ganoderma applanatum
July 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Plz share:
Do you grow Privet? RHS scientists want your help!
Privet is the #1 host for honey fungus root rot, but some species are worse hit than others. Help us with our research by completing this short survey:
tinyurl.com/4bj93ah3
Privet ID guide found here:
tinyurl.com/5fzumd74
Privet honey fungus survey
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July 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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The #ArmiArmy has a new recruit - Mary Coates from University of York is doing a 10 week project at Wisley to develop faster ways to screen plants for resistance to armillaria root rot aka honey fungus 🍯🍄 #mycology #applied #invitro #mentorship #plantpathology #planthealth #horticulture
Research students Mary and Sam in the prep room washing cut pieces of privet roots Magenta box with agar set into a slope and honey fungus mycelium and rhizomorphs growing through it Cut pieces of privet roots placed on top of the agar and fungus slope Research summer student Mary squatting by an open incubator with magenta boxes of fungi and roots on agar lining several shelves
July 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Chunky conks on a dead tree in Wimbledon #fungi #mycology #decay
Looks very pale but for a red band which makes me consider Fomitopsis pinicola, although that isn't a comment sight in UK... No clue what the tree species is without any leaves/needles! Ideas welcome 🤗
Two brackets, woody but pale with age, on a tree trunk Both brackets from a different angle looking the same size as a bench which is actually a short distance away Scene showing the entire dead tree with its branches cut back to the trunk. The the two brackets emerge at roughly a third of its total height Underside of a bracket showing tiny pores and some white webbing where it meets the wood
June 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The preprint of my second first-author paper (with
@nikcunniffe.bsky.social) is out! Read to find out how virus-resistant companion plants can control spread of non-persistently transmitted plant viruses: www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220...
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Diagram of the compartments in my mathematical disease model and the rates at which individuals flow between them. Compartments are healthy plants, infected plants, resistant (companion plants), un-infective aphids and infective aphids.
June 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Vivid orange rust pustules on the back of burnet roses along the south coast path on the Isle of Portland
#plantpathology #rustfungus #wildflowers
Bright orange dusty spores of rose rust fungus on the back of a white flower of the burnet rose
May 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Loads of 6 spotted burnet moths on red valerian along the Weymouth shore today
#wildflowers #moths
Red head of lots of tiny florets of red valerian which is being visited by the 6 spotted burnet moth which is black bodied with red spots and black curved antenna
May 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Beautiful day to be working at Wisley. Two fantastic Hilltop Live presentations by our Pathologists for Plant Health Week #PHW2025 Big props to Sam for making his #honeyfungus research so clear for the visitors, even explaining its benefits to nutrient cycling in nature #ArmiArmy
May 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM