@botany_beck

Obsessed with the natural world, esp. #fungi, wildflowers & native orchids. Wildlife gardener #ForestSchool Practitioner🌿Leads #WildflowerHour @wildflower_hour

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For #MushroomMonday it was treat to see Porcelain Fungus, Oudemansiella mucida today. It looks so beautiful with the sunlight shining through the gills 🥰
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Just had my possible Splendid Waxcaps (right set of pics) confirmed which is exciting! Even more exciting the left pics which I identified as Scarlet (but weren’t quite right for) have now been identified as Hygrocybe neomarchii which I’d been wanting to see!😀❤️ #mushroommonday
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11/10/26 #Madeira - The Madeiran endemic Goodyera macrophylla is one of the world’s rarest #orchids, restricted to a few stations in the north of the island, some of which rarely have flowering plants. It is considered Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List @EuropeanOrchids
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Field Scabious, Knautia arvensis, still looking beautiful for this week’s #wildflowerhour🥰
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A lovely day wandering midst waxcaps in the Peak District 🥰 Finally caught up with & smelt the Cedarwood Waxcap & my first time seeing Bitter. A good day, 12 species of waxcap seen in total & if the possible Splendid is confirmed 13, not bad at all 🥰 #mushroommonday
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Ooops! 🤭My camera roll seems to be entirely fungi this week, I could have done with a #WildFungiHour! 😀 #WildFlowerHour Names below in comments 🍄
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Top from left, Glutinous Waxcap, Garlic Waxcap, Rosy Bonnets, Scarlet Waxcap, Snowy Waxcap. Middle from left, Coconut Milkcap, Honey Waxcap, Ballerina Waxcap, Stubble Rosegill, Parrot Waxcap. Bottom, Waxcap Facepainter, Golden Waxcap, Shaggy Inkcaps, Slimy & Blackening Waxcap.
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7/10/26 #Cumbria - Today’s find was one of my highlights of the year so far. The Date Waxcap (Hygrocybe spadicea) is one of the UK’s rarest #chegd fungi and one that is notoriously difficult to nail down. Hopefully will come across some better examples next time…
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A cheeky #fungi foray after work yielded ten waxcap species, one of them Garlic, new to me. My son’s first time of seeing red & pink waxcaps, he absolutely loved it!!! 🥰 🔁 from top left Scarlet, Ballerina, Honey, Blackening, Glutinous, Slimy, Parrot, Golden, Garlic & Snowy.
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A little late for #mushroommonday but I’m so excited to see this on a little foray after work! I think it’s the Waxcap Facepainter, Metarhizium marquandii. Growing on the gills of a Snowy Waxcap. #Fungi #fungifriday
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On my travels this week, a few Devil’s-bit Scabious still flowering and a solitary Harebell looking lovely for #wildflowerhour. 💜💙
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I was so happy to spot some glorious Dotted Stem Boletes for #mushroommonday. Aren’t they stunning! The colour change upon bruising was so rapid and check out that finely punctate stipe! #fungi #fungifriday
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Here’s a rare beauty for #mushroommonday, the stunning Crimson Bolete, Chalciporus rubinus. It has gorgeous carmine red, decurrent pores & red upper stem which gives it a very striking appearance. Very rare & classed as vulnerable on the ICUN red list, I left it undisturbed ❤️
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Flowers, fruit & fungi for #wildflowerhour from a lovely weekend of wandering around old graveyards!😀🔁 from top left, Smoky Spindles, Golden Waxcap, White Spindles, Shaggy Soldier, Black Bryony, Blackening Waxcap, Meadow Waxcap, Red Campion & Persistent Waxcap.
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So happy to see these little guys up for #fungifriday! I just love them! Persistent Waxcaps, Hygrocybe acutoconica and my first waxcaps of the season! 💛
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Found another! Special thanks to @lukaslarge for his identification yesterday that the ‘frill’ is another #fungi, Syzygites megalocarpus, a mould with an impressive mycelium which delights in the common name of Troll-doll Fungus! How cool is that! Zoom in to see the flies!
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Here’s a closer up photo which shows grey structures amongst the mycelium, which I think are the sporangiophores.
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Found something a bit weird today - a frilly Blusher that looks like it’s wearing a tutu!!!!😀 Late for #mushroommonday early for #fungifriday
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Cute as a button, for #mushroommonday, a Cortinarius species perfectly demonstrating why this group are known as the Webcaps! Look at that cobweb-like veil or cortina! 🕸️ #fungi #fungifriday
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For the #wildflowerhour #favouriteplant challenge 2026, I'm probably going to choose this lovely patch of Coralroot #Orchids (Corallorhiza trifida) from the dunes of South Cumbria. They were absolutely magnificent 🥰
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My #FavouritePlant of 2026 for #wildflowerhour has to be this one. It’s been on my wish list for such a long time, the stunning hybrid between the Bee and Fly Orchid! Such enchanting, fascinating flowers! 🪰🐝 🥰
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