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Liz Downey

@lizlouise.bsky.social

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Interested in nature and science, wildflowers & fungi 🌿🍄 Art and photography | History | LOTR 🧝‍♀️ I have a black Staffy called Ruby 🐕‍🦺 #iPhonePhotography

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · Nov 20

Finally! Brown mushrooms & wild flowers - these are a selection of Bonnets, Bitter Oysterlings, a Fibrecap, & Birch Boletes 🤎🍄‍🟫 #Fungi @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 19h

Beautiful pink Brittlegills - probably ‘The Flirt’ Russula vesca, growing with Oak & Beech 💕🌳 #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 1d

Huge variety of Brittlegills & Milkcaps fruiting at the moment #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 1d

First Fly Agarics of the year for me, plus some False Deathcap 🍄‍🟫🍄 #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 1d

Charcoal Burner with Beech in the Blackdowns #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 14d

Plums and Custard (Tricholomopsis rutilans) at Wayford Woods 🩷💛 #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 16d

A couple of beautiful Webcaps from Somerset 💜🤎 for #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 16d

Shaggy Inkcap, AKA The Lawyer’s Wig - Coprinus comatus 🤍 #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 17d

Found a beautiful Brittlegill & have been to a workshop today to try & get it sequenced to find out which species it is - fingers crossed it works! #Fungi #Mushrooms

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Piotr Gąsiorowski @piotrgasiorowski.bsky.social · 19d

Geastrum pectinatum (EN beret earthstar, PL gwiazdosz długoszyjkowy). Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland).
#grzyby #fungi #fungifriends #mycology

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 20d

Lots more found in the area today! 🤩

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 20d

It’s a rare species so i was trying to get across that despite accidentally picking one, there was another there untouched, & I left the 2nd to release its spores

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 20d

So true! The sickly pale cap looks especially unappetising 🤢

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 21d

It’s not cheap but i feel much more confident with ID since using it - Mushrooms & toadstools of Britain & Ireland by Kibby (Volume 1 for Boletes).

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 21d

Which book do you use, Nicholas?

Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 21d

Have always wanted to see this one 😍 Devil’s Bolete - Rubroboletus satanas 👹 - I actually picked this thinking it was Caloboletus radicans & was surprised to find it was this! Have left it with another one growing next to it #Fungi #Mushrooms

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David Gibbs @davidjgibbs.bsky.social · 22d

Seven Boletids in a single day in a West Yorkshire valley, from top left clockwize - Suillus grevillei, Imleria badia, Xerocomellus cisalpinus, Leccinum scabrum, L. cyaneobasileucum, Xerocomellus pruinatus, Neoboletus erythropus.

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 23d

I’m definitely obsessed with mushrooms - now have mushroom ornaments in my cactus pots 😆🌵🍄
#MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi

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Liz Downey @lizlouise.bsky.social · 24d

Milkcaps & Brittlegills - my favourites to try & identify - i think these are Russula pseudointegra, Lactarius azonites, L. zonarius & L. semisanguifluus #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms