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@BrennanMartine Dungi fungi! Nice trio

Fungi on the dung heap for #MushroomMonday - the usual species found there: Dung Mottlegill, Blistered Cup and Snowy Inkcap (just emerging).

@SewellLeigh Great find. Envious as I’ve never found it 🙂

A very young Brain fungi/false morel ( Gyromitra esculenta) 😊 #mushroommonday #macromonday #mondaymorning #fungi #nature #naturelovers #naturephotography

@GuyBarter Well done! I try some years when feeling bold. They’re so hard to grow if you’re not a huge farm

First cauliflowers of the year. Take 9 months to grow & don't compare with superb Isle of Wight ones sold absurdly cheaply in local shops but I like to keep my cauliflower hand in. Purple sprouting a better crop and that is coming in now. #allotment

@swaledalebirds_ @BSBIbotany Nice homophone 😂

Wooden enemies near Richmond (N Yorks). My first of the year. (Called em that for years!) @BSBIbotany #wildflowerhour

Signs of spring. The first Cowslips are out! #WildflowerHour

@absolutelywild Early! No sign of the ones that come up in my garden

First St George's mushrooms (Calocybe gambosa) of the season. And I decent size, they've been around for a while! 6 weeks early. The recent mild, sunny with some rain weather is rather like April.

@MatronsVeggies Good luck! 🙂

These broad beans Aquadulce Claudia have just been sitting in the greenhouse looking sorry for themselves until last Tuesday when we had a whole day of sunshine and warmth.. and ta daaa! Here they are! #gyo #allotment #allotmentlife

@StevePa46290725 @wildflower_hour Great set of pics!

Some of the amazing tree ‘flowers’ out there at the moment - Larch female and male strobili, Alder female strobilus and male catkin, Hazel catkin and tiny female flower, strange petal-less barely open Ash flowers, nearly open Yew flowers. #tree #flower @wildflower_hour

@MikeFRobinson Just opening today near me too 🙂

The Common Whitlowgrass is coming into flower, beside a local Pavement...

@Ozymandiasdust @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour Isn’t that a Stitchwort? 🙂

Bittercress coming into flower. Those 4 stamens help distinguish it from Wavy Bittercress #WildflowerHour

@AndyCountryside Well, nice to see either way

@ChicksChange No, they're blackthorn. There's loads of it come out in blossom over the past 4 or 5 days. 🙂

Loving seeing the blackthorn bursting out into blossom. 🙂 #signsofspring

@Cazlar123 Morer celandine 🙂

Some lesser celandine for #SundayYellow #wildflowerhour

And here are the pores on that Hazel Bracket #FungiFriday

The way that Hazel Bracket (Skeletocutis nivea) just envelopes twigs #FungiFriday

@Punkrocksal @bernoid @SewellLeigh Hard to be certain as so immature, but possibly Goblets (Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis)

I don't know what these tiny mushrooms are yet. But it made my day spotting them on a rotting tree trunk along The River Ivel in Beds this morn. Can anyone help please? @bernoid @SewellLeigh? #FungiFriday #Mushrooms #trees #nature #WinterWatch #FeelgoodFriday #RunningLife

@NatureLark @IreneBoston2 @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour Seems to be spreading extraordinarily quickly near me Sussex. Pretty but v invasive!

@IreneBoston2 @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour It reproduces vegetatively in the UK (we only have male plants) via rhizomes (underground stems) allowing it to form dense colonies. The rhizomes break easily and even small fragments can form new plants. Fragments can be dispersed on machinery, which might explain this colony.

A very nice surprise on the edge of Dersingham for the #NewYearPlantHunt - masses of Winter Heliotrope in a new spot. Never seen it there before. That embankment was dug last year for roadworks - does it respond well to disturbance like that? @BSBIbotany

Some super-fresh Collared Earthstars (Geastrum triplex) spotted yesterday for #FungiFriday #fungi

@ListerLaneCem Lovely. So nice that you do this. Happy Christmas to all at Lister Lane

"Not dead nor yet sleeping, but gone to the Summer Land." Final resting place of George Hedley, died 3rd April 1870, aged 72. His employment included portrait & heraldry artist, & coach painter. Buried with 2nd wife Esther (née Denton), d. 1872 & nephew John Jenkins, d. 1865.