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My first sighting of Mossy Stonecrop (Crassula tillaea). I think the spiky bits are flowers but too small for my camera. Growing in perfusion on path edges in Beaumaris #wildflowerhour

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Blinks (Montia fontana) on dry clifftops in Anglesey. These must be a different subspecies to the ones I see in roadside gutters at home and submerged in mountain streams. The flowers are absolutely tiny #Wildflowerhour

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Dunes dotted with tiny bright blue flowers of Early Forget me not (Myosotis ramosissima). Anglesey. #wildflowerhour

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Dune pansies (Viola tricolour) with yellow flowers and purple spurs. Heath violets (Viola canina) purple flowers and yellow spurs. From sand dunes in Anglesey. #wildflowerhour

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Blinks

Blinks

Rue-leaved Saxifrage

Rue-leaved Saxifrage

Wood Anenome

Wood Anenome

Sea Mouse-ear

Sea Mouse-ear

Some plants from Anglesey for #Wildflowerhour

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Paphiopedilum flower in kitchen. Flowered prolifically last year over 8 months #orchids

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Winter Polypore

Winter Polypore

Mulch fieldcap?

Mulch fieldcap?

Bog Beacon

Bog Beacon

Liverwort navel

Liverwort navel

Some fungi from Liverpool and amazing Bog beacons from North Wales this week. #MushroomMonday #fungi

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Thanks for the info Jo, it was in that area. I tried submitting on iRecord via app but the species is not in the database

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Visit to Eryri to see Saxifraga oppositifolia (Purple Saxifrage) for first time. Was blown away, quite nearly literally #wildflowerhour

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A new find for me this week in suburban Wirral. Is this Mediterranean Nettle (Urtica membranacea)? #wildflowerhour

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Bog myrtle in North Wales. Some of the wetter valley floors are this amazing warm colour now #wildflowerhour

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Rue-leaved saxifrage

Rue-leaved saxifrage

Rue- leaved saxifrage

Rue- leaved saxifrage

Field woundwort

Field woundwort

Malva

Malva

One of my favourites plants covering a wall in a mossy underpass, Field woundwort on a church wall and some sort of Malva that looked unusual to me. All in urban North Liverpool #wildflowerhour

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First one between Heron road and Slaughal Massie road behind Meols?

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New ferry butterfly park

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Storeton woods first one?

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1. By the cafe at Port sunlight river park
4. Suspicious caravan park leasowe lighthouse

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It’s strange that the Canadian Psych Prof thought the woman was depressed and irritable because she couldn’t yawn rather than because her husband kept punching her in side of head. Or more than likely this is the terrible medicine news reporting of this newspaper

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The only Pine species I noticed was Pinus Sylvestris

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First time I’ve found one. I was very excited

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Dense tuft of orangey brown Flammulina fungi with lubricious caps fighting for position on fallen tree

Dense tuft of orangey brown Flammulina fungi with lubricious caps fighting for position on fallen tree

Purple Jellydisc growing on rotten log

Purple Jellydisc growing on rotten log

Stereum sp. Purple crust fungi with yellow edges on rotting log

Stereum sp. Purple crust fungi with yellow edges on rotting log

The cold weather has changed the fruiting fungi. Flammulina, jelly’s and crusts taking over in Arrowe Park, Wirral #fungifriends #mushroommonday

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Nice group of Hygrocybe sp. In North East Wales before the frost. Doesn’t look right for coccinea #fungifriends #mushroommonday

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Earpick fungi growing on pinecone at Bidston Hill, Wirral. #fungifriends #mushroommonday

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Ok, fair enough. How about ‘Unprofitable Basil’ instead?

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Heath Groundsel, White Deadnettle, Wild Basil and Hedgerow Cranesbill in bloom this week #wildflowerhour

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First one -Behind the Tesco in Heswell?

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First time I’ve seen them. I’ve sent you a DM

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Gliophorus sciophanous in a nature reserve NE Wales. Very slimy with some green showing in cap. A relative of the Parrot Waxcap. Not sure what the current thinking is on the taxonomy of this #fungi #fungifriends

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Some little brown mushrooms in North Wales. Hodophilus sp. and Psilocybe Fimetaria #fungi

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Autumn Gentian and Blue Fleabane flowering at a mild Minera Quarry, Wales. #wildflowerhour

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Autumn Gentian flowering at Minera Quarry, Wales this weekend #wildflowerfinder

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