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Jim Blackler
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Luckiest husband. Two rescue hounds. Mainly my own phone photos (some in focus) from dog walks.
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An Inkcap inside a damaged tree trunk.

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A mushroom in pristine condition, it has a brown cap and white stalk.
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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A handsome little mushroom lurking in the long grass.

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A small mushroom, a rich orangey-brown colour, growing in rough green grass.
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Rainy day mushrooms — possibly Waxcaps?

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A brown mushroom growing in wet grass it has a curled cap displaying its gills. A pale mushroom in wet green grass, it has a shiny cap. A pale and ghostly looking mushroom in wet grass.
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Wherever I lay my pat…

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A small mushroom (possibly a Yellow Fieldcap) with brown cap and white stalk emerges from a cow pat with green meadow grass behind.
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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They have pounced. And it’s a surprise attack, the two caps were hiding a third. Sneaky.

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Three small yellow Waxcap mushrooms burst thru a mulchy brown ground cover.
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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A tear in the clouds.
A black and white image of a cloudy sky, behind the thinner clouds in the centre is a contrail brightly reflecting sunlight.
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Anyone know if the little orange cups are related to the larger orange blob?

I’m not sure what either are, appreciate any #FungiFriends with ID skills.
Looking straight down at a fungus that looks like small orange bowls. A blobby rich orange coloured fungus. Looking straight down at the ground, blobby fungus near top of frame, bowl fungus near bottom.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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A wood pigeon feather, spotted with raindrops on a fallen tree trunk.
In black and white a wood pigeon feather, spotted with raindrops on a fallen tree trunk.
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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And it seems to me you lived your life like sporangia in the wind…

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November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Waxcaps on the windswept and rainy South Downs. Love the syrupy, candy colours.

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A bright orange mushroom in green grass. A bright yellow mushroom in leaf litter. A mushroom with orange cap and yellow stalk in green grass. A yellowy-orange mushroom in green grass.
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Waxcaps, biding their time, waiting to pounce.

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Looking straight down at two bright orange mushroom caps emerging from the earth. Looking straight down at two bright yellowy-orange mushroom caps emerging from the earth.
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Slug lunch at the bonnet cafe.

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Two pale brown mushrooms on wet rotting wood with a black slug on each.
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Rainy day mushrooms.

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A small brown mushroom. A mushroom with thin stem and grey cap. A pale mushroom with thin stem. A dark mushroom with thin stem.
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Brittlegill in nice, fresh moss.

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Mushroom growing in fresh green moss, it has a red cap and white stalk.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Waxcaps have a wonderful way of glowing even on grey days.

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A richly coloured orange mushroom growing in leaf litter.
November 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Hadn’t seen this before, the Silverleaf fungus.

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A pale pink fungus growing on an old tree.
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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One of the brittlegill mushrooms looking very autumnal.

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A mushroom with cap curled up exposing its gills, it grows in woodland leaf litter.
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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This also looks like guttation. It’s on the famed Mid Sussex Slime Mould Stump™. Not sure which fungus.

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Close-up of dark, decaying wood with a pale fungus. The fungus has orange and red drops forming.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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All the Parasols had pretty much gone and then this one popped up, glad I had a closer look.

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A Parasol mushroom on a rainy day in wet grass. Guttation can be seen on the edge of the cap #FungiFriends Looking straight down at the top of a Parasol mushroom cap. #FungiFriends Close-up of the edge of a mushroom’s cap with orange droplets forming on its edge. #FungiFriends
November 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Before following #FungiFriends I’d never heard of guttation so was quietly excited to see it in action (possibly).

I think that’s what’s happening with this Parasol. Looks like honey.

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Close-up of the edge of a mushroom’s cap. Orange-brown drops have formed around the edge.
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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They did it! Great to have Scotland back in the World Cup.
Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/Reuters
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Struggling to work out what this fungus is. Doesn’t look like Witches Butter and the colour too orange.

Growing in a patch of bracken, now ploughed flat, with woodland surrounding.

Appreciate any ID ideas from #FungiFriends

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Looking straight down at a super bright orange globby fungus emerging from mulch. Worm’s-eye view of a super bright orange globby fungus emerging from mulch.
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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He’s becoming a fungi sniffer. Homed right in on this Devil’s Fingers, they do have a sturdy aroma. Good boy.

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Fungus with red arms lying on grass and bracken. A super sniffer Lurcher stands proudly next to his discovery (lower right) amongst grass and bracken.
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Happy to spot these today, haven’t seen them before. Possibly Salmon Eggs?

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Close-up of a rotting branch with a group of slime mould sporangia clustered at the top, they have orange heads and white stalks. Close-up of a rotting branch with a group of slime mould sporangia clustered at the top, they have orange heads and white stalks.
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Beautiful blue sky today.
Red berries with blue sky behind in autumn sun.
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM