@BotanyCornwall

21 year old Botanist. Cornish Botany Group. BSBI Events & Communications chair. Learning naturalist. 2ndt year BSc Conservation Bio @plymuni #iamabotanist

 Bodmin, Cornwall
Joined June 2020
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Botanical University Challenge@BUCBotany20 Aug 2025
Final refueling of trams and audience for Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. Starts streaming 13:30 BST today 20 August on YouTube. @BotanicalUniversityChallenge
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cat frampton@cat_frampton29 Sep 2024
Ooooo! It’s the best time of year! It’s when my pasture is grazed low on purpose so my bloody lovely #waxcap fungi get to shine like the beauties they are!! Only a few out so far, but I can almost smell the rest just waiting to make an appearance!
Possibly a citrine waxcap. Not up to speed yet on id this year.

ALT Possibly a citrine waxcap. Not up to speed yet on id this year.

Parrot waxcap all green and yellow

ALT Parrot waxcap all green and yellow

? Vermillion waxcap? Don’t know. Will check later. Am rusty as it’s been a year!

ALT ? Vermillion waxcap? Don’t know. Will check later. Am rusty as it’s been a year!

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Judy Webb@judyweb3204987810 Sep 2024
Pleased to take some members of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire to #LyeValley #fen to appreciate everything about the remarkable Grass of Parnassus, still flowering in abundance in a restoration area. Thanks to C. Hoskin for the photo. @friendlyevalley
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Judy Webb@judyweb320498783 Sep 2024
Grass of Parnassus in #LyeValley #fen #SSSI seems to get well pollinated despite deceiving insects with its branched 'false nectaries' - groups of shining globules, look like nectar drops, but give none.... here just a variety of inverts searching,or just resting, in the flowers.
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Congratulations to @Cambridge_Uni Backs Buttercups on winning the Botanical University Challenge finals last week! 👉tinyurl.com/mr2986ek 🎉🏆🌱🌸
Left to right: Bertie Titley, Lottie Apsey, Dr. Jonathan Mitchley (Reading, a key organiser of event), Yi Zhao, Andrew Berley, Jake Dalzell (team captain).

ALT Left to right: Bertie Titley, Lottie Apsey, Dr. Jonathan Mitchley (Reading, a key organiser of event), Yi Zhao, Andrew Berley, Jake Dalzell (team captain).

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Autumn Lady’s-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) was quite frequent on short dune turf at Gwithien in Cornwall this week, always lovely to see #wildflowerhour #orchids
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The improbable Babington’s Leek (Allium ampeloprasum babingtonii) almost 2m tall at Gwithien Towans, Cornwall - a British (including Channel Is) endemic. Hard to miss! #wildflowerhour
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Flanders Moss in Scotland looking lovely in the sunshine this past weekend - including another #bogdog 📸 taken by the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of Peatlands project #PeatTwitter #PeatColours
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Nice morning on the locally restored heathland near my house. Despite the muggy weather a few Whitethroat,Wheatear & Chiffchaff around along with all the regular bits & bobs.
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The survivors photo after a fabulously varied day 2 - the careers and employability day @BUCBotany 2nd Student Botany Festival @QueensCollegeOx #BUC2024 @OBGHA @GatsbyEd @NewPhyt @BSBIbotany @FSCBiodiversity
Survivors photo after a fabulously varied day 2 - the careers and employability day Botanical University Challenge 2nd Student Botany Festival at The Queens College, Oxford.

ALT Survivors photo after a fabulously varied day 2 - the careers and employability day Botanical University Challenge 2nd Student Botany Festival at The Queens College, Oxford.

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What a tree! 🌳😍This Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) has a diameter of well over 2 meters. Hard to translate the size in pictures. Probably one of the most impressively big trees I have come across in the UK #trees #SummerBankHoliday @AncientTreesATF
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Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 semifinal team from team Backs Buttercups University of Cambridge. For a reminder sign up at forms.office.com/e/Aw2uJn5vW… Streamed live on the day, then recorded YouTube youtube.com/@BotanicalUniver… @plantsci @CUBotanicGarden @HamishSymington
Botanical University Challenge 2024 semifinal team from University of Cambridge. For a reminder sign up at https://forms.office.com/e/Aw2uJn5vWq Streamed live on the day and then available recorded from YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUniversityChallenge/streams

ALT Botanical University Challenge 2024 semifinal team from University of Cambridge. For a reminder sign up at https://forms.office.com/e/Aw2uJn5vWq Streamed live on the day and then available recorded from YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUniversityChallenge/streams

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New ‘Tracking the Colour of Peatlands’ site has been installed - Lochend - a @PeatlandACTION restoration site on Shetland! #PeatTwitter #PeatColours
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Day 1 of 2024 Azores field trip. The scenery at this new field site is not too bad. We are looking at plant adaptations to salinity in buck's horn plantain and the Azorean species of sea lavender @PlymBioMarSci @PlymUni @BotanyCornwall
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The @BUCBotany tote bags have arrived filled with botanical goodies for all at the 2nd Student Botany Festival @QueensCollegeOx from 28 August! Watch the contest here: bit.ly/46Tr6ju or follow the QR code. #BUC2024 @OBGHA @GatsbyEd @NewPhyt @BSBIbotany @FSCBiodiversity
Custom designed tote bags for the Botanical University Challenge 2nd Student Botany Festival 28-29 August, Queens College, Oxford

ALT Custom designed tote bags for the Botanical University Challenge 2nd Student Botany Festival 28-29 August, Queens College, Oxford

The semi-finals and finals of Botanical University Challenge between Cambridge, Kew, York and Reading will take place on 28th August from 2pm, follow the link or QR code to watch the live stream!

ALT The semi-finals and finals of Botanical University Challenge between Cambridge, Kew, York and Reading will take place on 28th August from 2pm, follow the link or QR code to watch the live stream!

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Sylvatica@Botany202116 Aug 2024
A view of the Camel Estuary from Rock, oh and a little spirally flower too.
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Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole16 Aug 2024
It's real!! Very excited to hold in my hands a hardback copy of my new book, THE LIE OF THE LAND - an expose of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain. Published 12th September - pre-order yours here: lnkfi.re/dsHR7n
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Ryan Clark@RyanClarkNature13 Aug 2024
The end of an era this evening, as my last meeting as part of @BSBIbotany 's Events & Communications Committee draws to a close. It's been a great 9 years supporting a fantastic data-led organisation that promotes and supports British and Irish botany for all!
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Kevin Walker@BSBIscience13 Aug 2024
I don’t have many native plants left to see in Britain so super choughed to see two new ones over last couple of weeks; Strapwort Corrigiola litoralis at Slapton Ley and Cornish Bladderseed Physospermum cornubiense near to Bodmin. Both beautiful in their own way! 1/2
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They deserve a ‘clap’ for this (they meant the plant, Gunerra).
Jo Jakeman@JoJakemanWrites29 Jul 2024
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