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
Dunes dotted with tiny bright blue flowers of Early Forget me not (Myosotis ramosissima). Anglesey. #wildflowerhour
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
Blinks
Rue-leaved Saxifrage
Wood Anenome
Sea Mouse-ear
Some plants from Anglesey for #Wildflowerhour
Paphiopedilum flower in kitchen. Flowered prolifically last year over 8 months #orchids
Winter Polypore
Mulch fieldcap?
Bog Beacon
Liverwort navel
Some fungi from Liverpool and amazing Bog beacons from North Wales this week. #MushroomMonday #fungi
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
Visit to Eryri to see Saxifraga oppositifolia (Purple Saxifrage) for first time. Was blown away, quite nearly literally #wildflowerhour
A new find for me this week in suburban Wirral. Is this Mediterranean Nettle (Urtica membranacea)? #wildflowerhour
Bog myrtle in North Wales. Some of the wetter valley floors are this amazing warm colour now #wildflowerhour
Rue-leaved saxifrage
Rue- leaved saxifrage
Field woundwort
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
First one between Heron road and Slaughal Massie road behind Meols?
New ferry butterfly park
Storeton woods first one?
1. By the cafe at Port sunlight river park
4. Suspicious caravan park leasowe lighthouse
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
The only Pine species I noticed was Pinus Sylvestris
First time I’ve found one. I was very excited
Dense tuft of orangey brown Flammulina fungi with lubricious caps fighting for position on fallen tree
Purple Jellydisc growing on rotten 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
Nice group of Hygrocybe sp. In North East Wales before the frost. Doesn’t look right for coccinea #fungifriends #mushroommonday
Earpick fungi growing on pinecone at Bidston Hill, Wirral. #fungifriends #mushroommonday
Ok, fair enough. How about ‘Unprofitable Basil’ instead?
Heath Groundsel, White Deadnettle, Wild Basil and Hedgerow Cranesbill in bloom this week #wildflowerhour
First one -Behind the Tesco in Heswell?
First time I’ve seen them. I’ve sent you a DM
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
Autumn Gentian flowering at Minera Quarry, Wales this weekend #wildflowerfinder