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Dan Ryan
@danryannature.bsky.social
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🌿 Plant botherer.
🍄 Mushroom tickler.
👊 Working for a wilder world.

Mainly photos of stuff that other people walk past and ignore. Also on Twitter & Insta. Longer descriptions of stuff usually in the ALT text.

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I’M DOING A TALK 🍄‍🟫

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January 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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After the weather postponed play this morning we had a very brief #NewYearPlantHunt in the afternoon. Much fun flushing 27 species from the streets of St Mawes.
January 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Two #NewYearPlantHunts done! ✅

At least one more to go…
December 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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I like your birds too l, Alex. Here are some of our non-fungi creatures
December 17, 2023 at 7:05 PM
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Beautiful! Rebecca are the Blue Roundhead in my photos and I forgot about this Amethyst Deceiver!
December 17, 2023 at 7:03 PM
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Christmas Tree fungi! 🍄🎄
Let’s see yours👇
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A brown capped mushroom, possibly a Knight, hangs from a decorated Christmas tree Amethyst Deceiver Christmas tree decorations hang from a tree Fly Agaric Christmas Tree decorations Blue Roundhead Christmas tree decoration
December 17, 2023 at 6:45 PM
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Gobsmacked to meet this glorious golden being today. So much so that this fungus has parachuted straight into my ‘Top 10 Most Brilliant Mushrooms’ list…

Phaeolepiota aurea, the Golden Bootleg.

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Golden Bootleg is a large, rare, golden coloured mushroom. A friend found this patch growing in a nearby woodland so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to meet this astonishing mushroom. The fruits smell sweet and somehow peculiar. Other people suggest almondy, which I can nearly be convinced about. This very rare mushroom has only been recorded a handful of times in Cornwall so it was a real joy to finally meet. Close up of the golden caps of Phaeolepiota aurea Young domed fruiting bodies of Phaeolepiota aurea on the woodland floor Close up of the gills of Phaeolepiota aurea
December 3, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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The architecture of a Meadow Waxcap (Cuphophyllus pratensis)

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Meadow Waxcaps are large, gilled agarics, which are relatively frequent in unimproved grasslands (and also woodlands I find). Their cap starts almost salmon pink and ends a tan-orange. Their stem is firm and white. Altogether it’s a very attractive mushroom. This sequence of photos shows the beautiful gill architecture which seem almost like the great arches of cathedrals. In fact some cathedrals and other buildings were inspired by these kinds of arches. Underside of meadow Waxcap Close up of gills
November 22, 2023 at 8:35 PM
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This account will now only post Parrot Waxcaps. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Multi coloured Parrot Waxcaps in short grass.
November 16, 2023 at 9:36 PM
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P A R R O T
W A X C A P S 🦜🦜
Brightly coloured Parrot Waxcaps in short grass.
November 15, 2023 at 8:40 PM
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The wrinkliest Wrinkled Club of all? 🍄📷
The Wrinkled Club (Clavulina rugosa) is often found next to footpaths, as these gorgeous specimens were. Their small white clubs are often very wrinkled. Close up of Wrinkled Club fungus
November 14, 2023 at 7:59 PM
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What’s the best colour in nature and why is it blue 🍄📷
Blue Roundhead (Stropharia caerulea) mushrooms in grassland. These fungi are generally pale with a beautiful tinge of blue green. Parrot Waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus) in grassland today. This colourful mushroom is often shades of green, but the example in the photo is a lovely blue-green.
November 12, 2023 at 7:14 PM
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P I X I E
C U P S
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Close up of a scene in the undergrowth. A Cladonia lichen, also known as Pixie Cups, emerges from the ground as green, crystalline tubes with small cups on top. Beneath them the darker green, round leaf like Dog Lichen grows.
November 9, 2023 at 7:49 AM
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J E L L Y
B A B I E S 🍄
Jelly Babies. Close up photograph of Leotia lubrica, commonly known as Jellybabies. Small, yellow, rubbery looking fungi, which are quite common but also rather difficult to spot in leaf litter. These were under a mixture of pine and oak.
November 6, 2023 at 1:00 PM
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A meme. On the left hand side is a picture of a man taking a photo of a baby crawling. The image is titled ‘People my age’. On the other side is a photo of the same man but this time taking a picture of mushrooms. This picture is titled ‘me’
November 2, 2023 at 1:41 PM
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On this Samhain or All Hallows’ Eve, here are some mysterious fungi from the thin places of the world 🍄👻

🧙‍♀️Witch’s Hat (Hygrocybe conica)
🖐️ Dead Man’s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha)
👺 Devil’s Fingers (Clathrus archeri)
👻 Spooky Spindles (Clavaria fumosa)

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Hygrocybe conica is also known as Blackening Waxcap or Witch’s Hat as mushrooms pointed cap gradually turns jet black. Spooky factor 8/10 Dead Man’s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) emerge from dead logs and look like just like the charred or blackened fingers of long dead people. Spooky factor 7/10 Clathrus archeri is more widely known as Devil’s Fingers. This fungus hatches from an underground egg and deep red tentacles splay out like an octopus. Each tentacle is covered in stinking brown slime that attracts flies to the smell. The flies then dutifully spread the fungal spores. Spooky factor 9/10 Spooky Spindles are really Smoky Spindles (Clavaria fumosa) of course. I’m fascinated by Flesh-coloured fingers rise from the ground. This particular clump was in a very old graveyard, like the long-dead animating back to life. Spooky factor 7/10
October 31, 2023 at 7:20 AM
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P A R R O T
W A X C A P 🦜
A close up of a Parrot Waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus) in the short mossy grass of a 700 year old churchyard in Cornwall. The mushroom has a bright green stipe (stem), a bright yellow cap and is slimy all over. Psittacinus is the Latin for Parrot.
October 30, 2023 at 8:30 PM
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Mushrooms the size of your rucksack 🎒
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A large parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera) standing in grassland, framed by two Monterey Pine trees. A man’s hand rests on top of a Parasol mushroom to indicate how large the mushroom’s cap is The parasol mushroom stands next to a green-blue rucksack. They are of nearly similar size.
October 29, 2023 at 6:03 PM
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Literally me rn
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A meme showing all-round legend The Rock in a tight t shirt with ‘my phone’ written on the t shirt. The Rock is holding a huge hold-all with ‘pictures of mushrooms’ written on it.
October 28, 2023 at 4:20 PM
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Y E L L O W
S T A G S H O R N 🦌
Yellow Stagshorn (Calocera viscosa) surrounded by moss and Ivy on a woodland floor. This jelly fungus always grows on rotting conifer wood and gets its name because the small fruiting body resembles deer antlers. Calocera means ‘beautiful and waxy’ and viscosa means ‘viscous’ or ‘sticky’
October 28, 2023 at 7:38 AM
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Hold me closer tiny mushroom.
A tiny Mycena mushroom pokes out from moss on an old tree. The mushroom is lit softly by warm sunlight and the moss glows green. The mushroom is possibly a Frosty Bonnet, Mycena tenerrima.
October 26, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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A collection of Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor) brackets on a dead log. The fungus is made of rainbow coloured concentric circles. The scientific name versicolor means ‘several colours’ 🌈🌈
October 25, 2023 at 5:16 PM
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A good day! I met my first Fly Agaric of the year, pushing up through the woodland floor.
A single Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria, mushroom emerges in a Cornish woodland. Its cap is dark Orange and a few of their famous white ‘warts’ can be seen in the cap. These warts are remains of the universal veil that encased the mushroom. The warts can wash off in wet weather, even when very young like this.
October 23, 2023 at 6:37 PM
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S U L P H U R T U F T 🍄
Sulphur Tuft mushrooms fruiting as a cluster on a dead log in the woods. Sulphur Tuft, Hypholoma fasiculare, is a very common fungi which can be found for much of the year in Cornwall. Although it looks very tasty, with butterscotch colouring, it apparently has a very bitter taste. I haven’t tried!
October 23, 2023 at 8:21 AM
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Good morning!
A view across Veryan Bay in Cornwall in fine autumn weather. Headlands jut out into the blue sky, while the land is dominated by small fields and browning bracken.
October 22, 2023 at 10:11 AM