Sometimes when we are botanising we can forget to look up! Which would be a shame as #treeflowers are both fascinating & beautiful! This week’s challenge is to go looking for wild & naturalised trees that are blooming. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm!

I am really out of practice, aren’t I? 🙃

White tubular five-lobed flowers dangling beneath spiny haired leaves

White variant of Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) in Horsham (VC13) #wildflowerhour #symphytum #comfrey

Light brown tuber with a few adventitious roots running off of it, held in my two hands. About a kilo in weight.

Same tuber held by orange haired idiot

Titan arum tuber - eight years old #botany #titanarum #amorphophallus (Amorphophallus titanum)

A shout to my fellow hybrid “athletes” crossposting lifting to #Strava and running to #Hevy just to annoy. “Yeah, I guess that explains why he’s so slow _and_ tiny.”

Badger lit by trans pride garden lighting under a bench sniffling crabapples

Visitor to our garden last night

Slowly approaching the limit of #parkrun volunteer bingo having marshalled the carpark yesterday. Of the roles we have available I’ve only got pacing (this summer!), VI guide (doable) and sign language support (stretch goals) left.

I’m still vaguely there but just not really using socials much at all of late. Thank you for the coral ID though :)

Underside of a bracket fungus with a spiny upper side and bifurcating gills beneath

Schizophyllum commune (splitgill) in St Leonard’s Forest near Horsham, growing on a lump of dead beech.

Grey rock with some fossils in it

@susieoftraken.bsky.social Hello. Dipping a toe back on here, let's see how long it lasts 😅 Partly prompted into it because a friend of mine sent me a picture of a presumed fossil from some swampy woodland in south Wales and it reminded me that I miss some of the people from The Bad Place.

Do I _really_ want to resuscitate a 'professional' social media profile on Bluesky, three years after leaving The Bad Place? Hm. Perhaps.