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Popped over to Henfield Church this afternoon to check out the waxcaps. It's usually a hot spot, but not so much today, probably needs a bit of rain. #fungi #mushrooms @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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What do you reckon this one is?

Many thanks for the guidance

Seemingly not poisonous for everything. Several of these about, but didn’t see any gnomes with fishing rods. Ebernoe Common. #mushrooms @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Always a treat to come across Amethyst Deceiver Laccaria amethystina. Just a few spotted at Ebernoe Common. #mushrooms @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Sorting out photos from Ebernoe Common. I’m making this a Panthercap Amanaita pantherina. #Mushroom @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Trying to think of a way of describing this without using the word erotic. Rising from the ground at Ebernoe Common a Sussex Wildlife Trust reserve. #fungi #mushrooms @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Magpie Inkcap. Ebernoe Common. Sussex Wildlife Trust Reserve. #mushroomMonday @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #mushrooms

Quite a few purple flowers cheering up the place today. Ebernoe Common, Sussex Wildlife Trust. Devil’s Bit Scabious, Common Knapweed, Betony and Mint. #wildflowerhour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Congratulations. So many pictures of Birling Gap and you have found a fresh view.

Round-Headed Rampion - Phyteuma orbiculare. Still going strong on the Sussex Downs this week. #wildflowerhour

Some lovely plants seen this year and like children, I love them all; but this Greater Knapweed made a particular effort. #FavouritePlant #wildflowerhour

We are not talking RHS exhibition blooms, but we have some stunted, sulky Autumn Gentian - Gentianella amarella - showing at Steyning. None of them properly open yet. Wee little plants.
#wildflowerhour

Blue Butterflies on The Steyning Downs this afternoon. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

It's Wally hiding again. Autumn Lady's Tresses - Spiranthes spiralis. On East Sussex Downs. #wildflowerhour

Common Knapweed - Centaurea nigra. With a little creature doing a Where's Wally. #wildflowerhour #SeedHeads

Gypsywort - Lycopus europaeus. Growing on the margins of a functioning Dew Pond. Good to see a fresh looking plant. #wildflowerhour #SeedHeads

Ragwort-Senecio jacobaea. Seedhead looking nce and fluffy. #wildflowerhour #SeedHeads

Orchid seedhead on East Sussex Downs. I'd go Frgrant but happy to be corrected. #wildflowerhour #SeedHeads

Wild carrot - Daucus carota. With a chum hunkering down for the day. #wildflowerhour #SeedHeads

Great willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum. Nature showing sculptors how to do it. #SeedHeads #wildflowerhour

Greater knapweed - Centaurea scabiosa. Looking good even when the flowers drop off. #SeedHeads #wildflowerhour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Mmmmmm nice. Henbane.

Centaurium erythraea - Common Centuary. Still going strong. This one growing among Autumn Gentians and holding it's own. #GentianFamily @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Round-Headed Rampion - Phyteuma orbiculare - Grand little plant, thriving in the harsh conditions of dry, grazed, wind swept chalk hills. This near Steyning. #wildflowerhour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

The last Orchid of the year. Autumn Lady's-Tresses
Spiranthes spiralis . Such a romantic name. A few of these showing in Sussex this week. #wildflowerhour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Lucky enough to have a few Gentians on this part of The South Downs. Autumn Gentian - Gentianella amarella. Tough conditions on it's tightly cropped, dry chalk hill home. #GentianFamily #wildflowerhour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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Pentanema squarrosum - Ploughman's Spikenard - on the Sussex Downs, for daisy family this week. Quite a distinct and scruffily handsome plant #daisyfamily #wildflowerhour