🌿 Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 2026 🌿
Join leading researchers sharing evidence-based insights on ponds, pollinators, fungi and urban mammals. Coming up on 14th Jan.
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Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe....
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A collage of four photos from yesterday’s walk. The first is a cluster of sulphur tufts, the second an innocuous looking but toxic Deathcap, the third a Fly Agaric, also toxic and the fourth Coral fungi looking as though it belongs in the sea.
After the disappointment of Wisley’s Fungus Day being cancelled by Storm Amy, yesterday I had the privilege of doing a Fungus walk with Liz, the Principal Plant Pathologist for the RHS. It was so interesting and informative. These are just a few we spotted. 🌱 #mushroomMonday #fungusfriends
THIS WEEK HAS SAUCE 4
Stunning fossils in sedimentary rocks reveal a new and co-oldest Early Cretaceous gilled mushroom-forming fungus
Edaphagaricites conicus gen. nov. et sp. nov.
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Dark blue hardback cover of RHS Fungi for Gardeners on a set of shelves of gardening books in a book shop
Jassy Drakulic standing next to the bookshelves featuring her new book, smiling
Red stained hyphae of nitrous bonnet with pointed ends that bend away from the stem at right angles
My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now!
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends
🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation.
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Thank you so much Linda - I found you had put it on my desk for me when I was in the office yesterday. Very moved by this kind gesture and I love the intricate design. I will wear with great pride when I take the book on tour round the RHS gardens!
🎲 Looking for something new for game night? Why not try one of these fungus board games — forage, grow, and strategize your way through the through the fungal kingdom! Reviews in this #UKFungusDay blog by Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social: ukfungusday.co.uk/fungusboardgames
Gutted it's off! Would have been fantastic working with you to inspire the visitors. What a beautiful brooch 😍 such a wonderful idea, I'm touched
Larch bolete btw! Suillus grevillei
A before and after of some fun early autumn fungi at RHS Wisley:
Bolete tbd species and Shaggy inkcap Coprinus comatus.
One will become ink for #UKFungusDay artwork and the other has made a nice ochre spore print
#gardens #fungi #mycology #outreach
A group of orange mushrooms growing in grass next to a dry-stone wall.
🍄🌱 Gardens can be fungal hotspots — if we let them! In this blog for #UKFungusDay, Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social at The RHS explores how garden practices can encourage (or suppress) fungi & why that matters for #SoilHealth & #Biodiversity. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiingardens
#Gardening
Awesome!! Thank you 🥰 gonna be a blast 🎉
🍄 What’s the secret life of fungi in your garden?
Discover how they help plants thrive with Dr @jassydrak.bsky.social in How Fungi Make Gardens Flourish
📅 14 Jan 2026 | Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium
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Group of purple fungi.
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*sedges!
Conker, covered in dark soil, cut open showing marbled pale flesh inside
In tact soil covered conker and a tangle of stringy dark rhizomorphs next to it, beneath dead grass leaves
Marbled interior, smells sweet... Not a truffle, but a conker full of honey fungus!
This one was being used to test whether honey fungus affects ornamental grasses/wedges which have become popular horticultural plants
#ArmiArmy #fungi #planthealth
The Midas mushroom paper is out from the Pringle lab - the story of how cultivated fungi can escape and cause environmental harm.
We need more native fungal strains available for cultivation so home growers can grow without these risks
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I was just opening comments to say the same thing 😅
Niiice - Will have really cool pores underneath assuming it is dryads saddle Cerioporus squamous as it appears to be 🤩
It´s all about fungi!
Abortiporus biennis
#fungifriends #mycology #blood
It´s all about fungi!
Abortiporus biennis
#fungifriends #mycology #macro
It´s all about fungi!
Abortiporus biennis
#fungifriends #mycology #macro
It´s all about fungi!
Abortiporus biennis
#fungifriends #mycology #macro
It´s all about old water towers that look like fungi!
old water tower in Saxony (Alt-Ottenhain)
#watertower
Albertiniella polyporicola on the underside of old Ganoderma applanatum
Albertiniella polyporicola, a tiny fungus (compare with pore size) on the underside of Ganoderma fruiting bodies.
#fungi #fungifriends #mycology
That is really helpful, thanks so much ❤️
Good idea, thank you! I don't have a FB account anymore but I can see if my colleagues do - unless you are kindly offering?
Plz share:
Do you grow Privet? RHS scientists want your help!
Privet is the #1 host for honey fungus root rot, but some species are worse hit than others. Help us with our research by completing this short survey:
tinyurl.com/4bj93ah3
Privet ID guide found here:
tinyurl.com/5fzumd74
Research students Mary and Sam in the prep room washing cut pieces of privet roots
Magenta box with agar set into a slope and honey fungus mycelium and rhizomorphs growing through it
Cut pieces of privet roots placed on top of the agar and fungus slope
Research summer student Mary squatting by an open incubator with magenta boxes of fungi and roots on agar lining several shelves
The #ArmiArmy has a new recruit - Mary Coates from University of York is doing a 10 week project at Wisley to develop faster ways to screen plants for resistance to armillaria root rot aka honey fungus 🍯🍄 #mycology #applied #invitro #mentorship #plantpathology #planthealth #horticulture