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Liz Downey
@lizlouise.bsky.social
Interested in nature and science, wildflowers & fungi 🌿🍄 Art and photography | History | LOTR 🧝‍♀️ I have a black Staffy called Ruby 🐕‍🦺 #iPhonePhotography
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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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November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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It´s all about fungi!
Arrhenia rickenii
#fungifriends #nature #mycology #fungi #photography #macro
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The most vibrant Goblet Waxcaps I’ve ever seen, in Dorset 🧡❤️ #Fungi #Mushrooms
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis) - At least twice the usual number of mushrooms pushing their way up through the dead bracken alongside the wood-rushes 🩷🌿 #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Tiny earpick fungus on a pine cone.
#fungifriends
#mushroommonday
#mycology
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Aseroe ruber - Anemone stinkhorn 😳

This specimen is immature, yet to fully burst from its egg sack. #allthingsfungi

#weirdfungi #aseroerubra #fungifriends
November 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Since we started doing #NoMowMay in 2020, I’ve been hoping for an orchid to pop up in my lawn. But I’ll take two Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis)!
AKA Ballerina Waxcap… of course they are 🩰
#MushroomMonday #fungi #mushroom
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Birch Bolete 🍄‍🟫 at Powerstock Nature Reserve in Dorset #Fungi #Mushrooms
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Ecstatic to find a small colony of Pipe Club - apparently common but first time I’ve spotted it 🤩✨🍂
#Fungi
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A pair of Bovine Bolete (Suillus bovinus) in a stand of Pine & Beech 🌲🌳🍂 #Fungi #Mushrooms
November 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A nibbled Birch Bolete in the Blackdowns (Leccinum) 🍄‍🟫🍂✨ #Mushrooms #Fungi
November 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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We are hiring!
Applications are open for an Assistant. Prof. In Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation at Trinity College, School of Natural Sciences in the Discipline of Botany! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Any enquiries, please DM me!
#academicjobs #universityjobs #environmentalscience
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Crab Brittlegill, Birch Brittlegill, Chestnut Bolete & Bloody Brittlegill from Wareham Forest 🍄‍🟫❤️🍂 #Mushrooms #Fungi #MushroomMonday
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Primrose Brittlegill (Russula sardonia) seen near Wareham Forest last week 🩷 #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Mushrooms
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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It really is the season of purple shrooms.

Violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus).
#fungifriends
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Yellow Swamp Brittlegill (Russula clarofava) in a wet birch woodland near Wareham this morning 💛 #Fungi #Mushrooms
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I don’t see many Fly Agaric in the Blackdowns so it’s always nice to find one 🍄😍🍄 #Fungi #Mushrooms
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Nice to find Blue Band Brittlegill - Russula chloroides, showing the distinctive turquoise ring at the top of the stem #Fungi #Mushrooms
October 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
They seem to have slowed now but this has definitely been an excellent year for Boletes. I’ve seen many species for the first time this year, including Devil’s Bolete, Bilious Bolete, Inkstain Bolete, Oak Bolete, a white Penny Bun & more! #Fungi #Mushrooms 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫
October 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Beautiful pink Brittlegills - probably ‘The Flirt’ Russula vesca, growing with Oak & Beech 💕🌳 #Fungi #Mushrooms
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Huge variety of Brittlegills & Milkcaps fruiting at the moment #Fungi #Mushrooms
October 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
First Fly Agarics of the year for me, plus some False Deathcap 🍄‍🟫🍄 #Fungi #Mushrooms
October 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Charcoal Burner with Beech in the Blackdowns #Fungi #Mushrooms
October 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Plums and Custard (Tricholomopsis rutilans) at Wayford Woods 🩷💛 #Fungi #Mushrooms
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM