Ian Senior

I try!

BOO! 👻🎃👻

No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits.

#Ecosde2Cañones

I'm sure we can cope!

A Dog Stinkhorn Mutinus caninus emerging from its 'egg'

Collared Earthstar Geastrum triplex

A Gold-flecked Woodwax Hygrophorus chrysodon clearly showing the yellow 'teeth' on the margin

Solitary Amanita Amanita echinocephala

A few of the more exciting finds from a recce of Collyweston Great Wood NNR in preparation for a fungus walk I'm co-leading tomorrow. Exciting to find lots of Dog's Stinkhorn and Collared Earth-star while Gold-flecked Woodwax was new to me, growing close to several Solitary Amanita

#fungifriday

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As it’s the season for ghostly apparitions here’s a few Epipogium spotted in France earlier this year.. oooooo 👻

Clathrus ruber - Red Cage fungus, first time finding this species in Birmingham #FungiFriends @ecorecord.bsky.social @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social

Trevesia burckii produces otherworldly leaves the shape of snowflakes. This formation may be an adaptation to help sunlight filter down to lower leaves, helping the plant photosynthesize in shaded forests.

Digging in the last flowers on the allotment arable plant plot today. Necessary for autumn germination of winter annuals. A few new species join the party this year: Red Hemp-nettle, Field Gromwell, Violet Horned Poppy, Annual Knawel & Narrow-leaved Cudweed

Identification of little brown jobs can sometimes be challenging but substrate can give an important clue. Here's Naucoria striatula (Striate Aldercap) growing amongst the exposed, tangled roots of Alnus glutinosa (Common Alder). #fungi

Red beard orchid (Calochilus paludosus) near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC.

Red beard orchid (Calochilus paludosus) near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC. Good numbers out in open grassland this year at this location - with flowers starting to open on a warm morning. A relatively uniform species across a wide range in Australia (and New Zealand). #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity

Tiny orchid flowers!

Crested sun orchid (Thelymitra x irregularis) near Genoa, VIC.

Crested sun orchid (Thelymitra x irregularis) near Genoa, VIC. This beautiful sun orchid is a natural hybrid between T. ixioides (spotted sun orchid) + T. carnea (pink sun orchid) which were both also flowering at this location. Only 2 plants out here but saw several more nearby #orchids #inthefield

Here are some miniatures seen during a foray that I led for Doncaster Nats today. The Physarum and the Didymium are slime moulds and the Mollisia and the Orbilia are ascomycete fungi.

Pulling some samples for sequencing.

Check out this pretty little Cortinarius

#fungifriends #mycology

It's the day of pretty corts

#mycology #fungifriends

We frequently find it on our plant surveys, mainly in and around Norfollk towns and villages.

Close up of a yellow wildflower with red spots. From Wikipedia: An annual species, 2 to 10 cm tall, bearing 1 to 20 yellow flowers. The flower is typically 0.5 to 1 inch wide, yellow with yellow hairs and tiny red dots on the palate and a large red dot on the lower limb.[2] In small plants, the flower is often larger than the leaves and stem. Sereno Watson first described this species as "A pretty dwarf flower of earliest spring, forming bright patches of color among the sage-brush in the lower valleys, the delicate inch-long stem seeming scarce able to sustain the absurdly disproportionate flowers that terminate it. Carson Valley, Nevada; April."

An entire yellow wildflower with red spots. it is a very small wildflower From Wikipedia: An annual species, 2 to 10 cm tall, bearing 1 to 20 yellow flowers. The flower is typically 0.5 to 1 inch wide, yellow with yellow hairs and tiny red dots on the palate and a large red dot on the lower limb.[2] In small plants, the flower is often larger than the leaves and stem. Sereno Watson first described this species as "A pretty dwarf flower of earliest spring, forming bright patches of color among the sage-brush in the lower valleys, the delicate inch-long stem seeming scarce able to sustain the absurdly disproportionate flowers that terminate it. Carson Valley, Nevada; April."

#FallBackFlowers to April 29, 2025 when I had a work appointment 1.5 hours away, but stopped at every wildflower hotspot along the way...

Carson Valley Monkeyflower & it's spooky, surprised face
No taller than my index finger to mid-knuckle joint.
(Erythranthe carsonensis)
🌿
#BloomScrolling

Marvellous job!

It's waxcap time!
Hygrocybe coccinea, Hygrocybe chlorophana, Hygrocybe punicea and Gliophorus psittacinus

#mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends

Fly agaric

Spotless fly agaric from Earlham cemetery today. 📷🍄

Pretty rare species in Norfolk. Only found it once so far....

Cuphophyllus russocoriaceus - Cedarwood Waxcap. The ones I've found before didn't have a very strong smell, but this one was intensely perfumed #FungiFriends

A red pored boletes in n a forest

A gorgeous Neoboletus luridiformis - Scarletina Bolete seen in the Wyre Forest today #FungiFriends #ukwildlife

Chip Cherries (Leratiomyces ceres)

Shaggy Parasol (Chlorophyllum rhacodes)

Scurfy Twiglet Tubaria (furfuracea)

Clouded Funnel (Clitocybe nebularis)

With moths thin in the ground I turned my attention to #fungi this morn. 19 species in an hour foraying around Catton Park - my new local #fungus patch.

IDs are my best shot. Happy to be corrected.

T shirt, beer glass and programme

A fine evening was had.... #beer #norwichbeerfest

Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals Study of Met Office data one of first to show how nocturnal insects affected by factors such as light pollution

Night-flyjng insects over UK in decline...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Waxcap 14 - Pale Waxcap (Cuphophyllus berkleyi / C. pratensis var pallida). Switches between full species and a var but it's a clearly distinct taxon worth recording separately. A largish Cuphophyllus with decurrent gills. Lacking the apricot tones of Meadow and the cap has a very chalky texture.

Crocus caspius Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Hohen.
Iridaceae
Endemic to Iran
Mazandaran, Iran
24 October, 2025
Elevation 1700m
#crocus #Iridaceae #botany #ecology

Enjoying a long weekend away in the Derbyshire Dales and taking plenty of opportunities to check out the Grassland #Fungi round here! #Waxcaps and Spindles galore, and many other #chegd beauties too! Thoroughly enjoying the #WildFungiHour