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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 14h

so two artists using the same type of paper and wanting to record the local fungi (?) - Wheeler (not signing the paintings) is the better artist & Baker (signing) not quite the same standard.

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 14h

Other Wheeler drawings of fungi of Somerset are at Kew (boxes 168, 169). SC 7: 241; D: 653"
from Brief Biographies of British Mycologists (.pdf) www.davidmoore.org.uk/Assets/Print...

www.davidmoore.org.uk

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 14h

possibly two artists "WHEELER (Edwin; 1833-1909), was a homeopathic druggist of Bristol. A collection of his (and R. Baker's) watercolour drawings of fungi of the Bristol district
(1889-99) were sold at Sotheby's 2 June 1971.

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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 20h

📷 A fungus (Cortinarius purpurascens?): three fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Watercolour, 1897. Wellcome Collection. Notation: Cortinarius purpurascens Claverton Sept/97, in pencil: "Strong scented"
Who led the classes? What was their intent? Nice botanical accuracy @botanicalmartin.bsky.social

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 15h

these are very assured and confident paintings! better than many I've seen in this period, so I doubt this artist was a student at this stage.
Maybe they just met up to paint fungi and chatter as many do today?

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all Solanum fans - this keys out as S nitidibaccum apart from petal width. Several plants with all petals like this. Plenty of normal-looking, white-flowered nearby. Any ideas, please?

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NEYEDC @teamneyedc.bsky.social · 2d

The final countdown has begun! This week we're publishing #95 in our #YorkshireIn100Species series & our star species, brought to us by our very own Josie Monaghan, is the iconic Lady's-slipper Orchid: www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... Click through to read more about this amazing species' revival!

#95 Lady's-slipper Orchid by Josie Monaghan — neyedc

Josie’s chosen species is one of our most iconic and beautiful native wildflowers, the Lady’s-slipped Orchid Cypripedium calceolus . Josie first worked with NEYEDC as a short-term contractor in ...

www.neyedc.org.uk

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · 1d

Verdigris Roundhead, Stropharia aeruginosa at Arger Fen near Sudbury, Suffolk today. One of my faves 😍 @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 2d

**or Bay Bolete apparently, who knew the stem bit was so important?

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 2d

At this time of year I usually see lots of fungi that I can't name but I saw this and thought it was a Penny Bun!* because from above it literally looks like an egg-glazed bread bun.
*Now I check it could also be Bitter Bolete** (I didn't photo the right bits). Either way, it was fun to find

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 2d

There was also a Parrot waxcap which was not so easy to find ...

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 2d

Some Blackening Waxcap fungi from a local churchyard from last week - quite easy to spot in the grass and ID when they turn black

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 7d

Funaria hygrometrica, the bonfire moss, seems to be also fairly widespread

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 7d

Pteridium aquilinum is in all continents but Antartica - usually can link to the Kew Plants of the World database to show this, but it seems offline at the moment

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Francis Hickenbottom @fhickenbottom.bsky.social · 9d

Today's work in progress: Cuphophyllus flavipes (Yellow-Foot Waxcap). This species grows on the croquet lawn of the Archbishop Holgate Hospital, West Yorkshire. #Fungi #FungiFriday

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James Harding-Morris @bsbicountries.bsky.social · 9d

The Little Whirlpool Ramshorn Snail - one of a series of photographs I commissioned whilst working on the Back from the Brink project so that people could actually *see* some of our most threatened and beautiful species.

📷: Alex Hyde/Back from the Brink

Little Whirlpool Ramshorn Snail on a fingertip

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NEYEDC @teamneyedc.bsky.social · 8d

The next blog in our series looking at the update of the Ancient Woodland Inventory is now live on our website: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi.... This time, we're getting an insight into the survey techniques used on the ground to help verify potential 'new' ancient woodland 🌳

Updating the Ancient Woodland Inventory: Groundtruthing — neyedc

Carrying on from our previous blogs, our Ecological Surveyor, Claire Bending, talks about the next steps in the process of updating the Ancient Woodland Inventory (AWI) - on-the-ground surveys.

www.neyedc.org.uk

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 9d

so interesting - no hedges! horses not oxen, and once again the tall wheat and the arable flowers only visible at the edges. Also Mary must be sitting in the common grazing land and that looks like either brambles or roses at the bottom right and left. Great insight into the landscape of the time😍

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NEYEDC @teamneyedc.bsky.social · 17d

We have a fascinating insight into one of our smallest #YorkshireIn100Species subjects yet, the springtail Dicyrtomina saundersi, brought to us by macro photographer Tim Jonas. Read on to find out more about this intriguing group and view some stunning images: www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... 📸

#94 Dicyrtomina saundersi by Tim Jonas — neyedc

Tim’s chosen species is  Dicyrtomina saundersi , a 2mm soil-dwelling springtail. Tim is a nature photographer and explorer of tiny worlds, with a keen interest in invertebrates of all shapes a...

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 16d

E. esula (plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... ) & both of the last two are shown as being at South Gare on the distribution map & the latter description mentions that the E. esula complex is tricky to ID.
Dave Barlow's 2021 flora of South Gare says only Euphorbia cyparissias.
🤷 that's South Gare!

PlantAtlas

plantatlas2020.org

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 16d

Well this is an interesting Pandora's box. It turns out that E. uralensis isn't found in the UK (according to Kew powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls... ) but BSBI Atlas says it's another name for E. × ⁠pseudovirgata (plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... ) of which one of the parent is 1/2

Euphorbia uralensis Fisch. ex Link | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science

The native range of this species is E. Europe to Mongolia and Central Asia. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

powo.science.kew.org

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 23d

Scroll down the linked page for North Yorkshire Waxcap events this October for beginners and improvers - a range of waxcap forays too!

NEYEDC @teamneyedc.bsky.social · 24d

Our surveyor Claire spoke at the Northern Grassland Forum yesterday, spreading the word about our grassland fungi work (www.neyedc.org.uk/waxcaps) to protected landscapes in our region, making connections & learning about other initiatives - thanks to Nidderdale National Landscape for facilitating!

Waxcaps — neyedc

www.neyedc.org.uk

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Sep 17

We've brought together a diverse range of high-quality vegetation plot datasets to form a new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain!

Read more:
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🌱🌿🧪

A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain

UKCEH has brought together, for the first time, a diverse range of high-quality vegetation plot datasets to form a new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain – the GBNVPD.

www.ceh.ac.uk

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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 27d

so it is! & with two people walking through the crop on one of the lines which suggests the line equates to a gap in the crop.
Perhaps the gap is a marker between on person's strip of wheat and the next person's and also somewhere to stand whilst weeding?

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Barry 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 💚 🌿 @wonkyeggs.bsky.social · 27d

A late flowering Dyer's Greenweed taking advantage of the recent rains

#WildflowerHour

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