Collage of 4 winning images from the UK Fungus Day photography competition 2025
✨ Celebrating Fungus Photography Excellence! ✨We’re delighted to share the winning images in the #UKFungusDay 2025 #photography competition. A huge thank-you to everyone who took part - nearly 400 entries were received! See all the winning photos: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/photography2...
Yellow-colour Waxcap - credit: Vaughn Matthews / Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust
The #UKFungusDay celebrations are not over yet! 🍄 Events still to come include Wandering for Waxcaps at Merry's Meadows, and Wheatfen Fungi Foray at Rutland Water.
👉 Take a look at the list: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/whatson
Yellow-colour Waxcap - credit: Vaughn Matthews / Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust
The #UKFungusDay celebrations are not over yet! 🍄 Events still to come include Wandering for Waxcaps at Merry's Meadows, and Wheatfen Fungi Foray at Rutland Water.
👉 Take a look at the list: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/whatson
Photo of a group of orange coloured mushrooms growing through a pile of old, brown pine needles and twigs. Photo credit: Thomas Sigrist
Our #UKFungusDay Photography Competition is still open for entries 📸 Submit your favourite fungus snaps by 13 October! It's free to enter - three age groups, professional & amateur categories.➡️ www.ukfungusday.co.uk/photography
Thanks to competition sponsor Caley Brothers 😊 🍄
Looks like Sarah had a great time celebrating #UKFungusDay 🍄🙌
Did you spot any fungus over the weekend? 👀 Share your photos with us in the replies. ~ Jack
Close-up photo of a fungus against a white painted background
Photograph showing the fungus in situ growing out of the window frame.
Perhaps a day late for #UKFungusDay, but enjoy this picture of fungus growing out of the window frame in my local 🍺
Honey waxcap- with a strong familiar sweet smell. Golden waxcap and an unidentified grey metallic mushroom with white gills on a short graveyard walk #ukfungusday #fungi
Day 1193 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and a day late for #UkFungusDay
This fly agaric won the day today, but we had a few #FungiBombing too 😁🤭🍄💣🤦♂️ #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
Now I think these are The Blusher (Amanita rubescens) Malvern, Worcestershire. 🤞🏻@lukaslarge.bsky.social @worcswt.bsky.social #Fungi #UKFungusDay
Do you find fungi a little...✨magical✨?
You're not alone – a rich collection of myths and legends surrounds many of our fungal species 👻 🍄
It's #UKFungusDay, so here are some of our fantastical favourites – from bathing elves to flying reindeer!
Know any other fungi folk tales? Tell us below 👇
A photo of Beefsteak Fungus on a mossy tree trunk, by Mark Ramsdale
Our Find-a-fungus challenge for #UKFungusDay is still open until 10th October! This is Beefsteak Fungus - Fistulina hepatica - a large, reddish, meaty-looking fungus found mainly on old Oak and Sweet Chestnut trees. One of 20 fungi to find. Join in: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/findafungus
Come and explore fantastic fungi at our annual #YorkshireFungiFest - 11th & 12th October at Potteric Carr, Doncaster.
#UKFungusDay
#ukfungusday 💚 #mushrooms #fungi #autumn #woodlandfloor #woodland #woods #forest #trees #plants #nature #goodforthesoul #photography #windermere #lakedistrict #walking #wellbeing
Some Fly agarics (Amanita muscaria) finds for #UKFungusDay. These are all from a woodland in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. @britmycolsoc.org.uk #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Photography #Nikon
Some Fly agarics (Amanita muscaria) finds for #UKFungusDay. These are all from a woodland in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. @britmycolsoc.org.uk #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Photography #Nikon
Some Fly agarics (Amanita muscaria) finds for #UKFungusDay. These are all from a woodland in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. @britmycolsoc.org.uk #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Photography #Nikon
Some Fly agarics (Amanita muscaria) finds for #UKFungusDay. These are all from a woodland in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. @britmycolsoc.org.uk #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Photography #Nikon
Some Fly agarics (Amanita muscaria) finds for #UKFungusDay. These are all from a woodland in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. @britmycolsoc.org.uk #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Photography #Nikon
I’m in amanita heaven for #ukfungusday a bonanza of fly agaric on my usual patch and I’ve also been on a workshop to learn how to paint one!🍄😃 #mushrooms #fungi #nature
A few #Speyside finds for #UKFungusDay
@britmycolsoc.org.uk @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #Moray #VC95 #mushrooms #fungi 🍄🍂🍄🟫🪵
Collage of colourful fungi found in UK
Happy UK Fungus Day!
Tentative IDs (clockwise): Beefsteak fungus, Black Bulgar, Earth Star, Dryad's Saddle, Amethyst Deceiver (I think), Turkey Tail
#ukfungusday #fungi
Finally, with some painstaking searching, found sone Fly Agarics, Welland, Worcestershire this morning. #UKFungusday @worcswt.bsky.social #Fungi
Think these are Aspen Bolete due to proximity of Aspen thicket & Panther Cap. Welland, Worcestershire. Not sure though as next trees were Birch, although around 3 M away so could be Birch Bolete 🤔 #ukfungusday @worcswt.bsky.social #Fungi lovely whatever👍🏼
Small brown mushrooms with white stalks.
Sulphur Tut mushrooms growing from a tree stump.
Mushrooms growing from a fallen branch in woodland.
Egg-like mushroom caps emerging from leaf litter.
Recent group sightings.
🍄 #FungiFriends #UKFungusDay
Looking straight down at a Fly Agaric mushroom. It is bright red-to-orange with white spots against brown leaf litter.
A startling shot of colour in an increasingly brown woodland.
🍄 #FungiFriends #UKFungusDay
Golden Scalycap, Pholiota aurivella, on dead Alder. Nethy Bridge, 24/09/2025 #Fungi #UKFungusDay @edinburghnats.bsky.social
Silky Rosegill (Volvariella bombycina)
Scarlet Elfcup (Sarcoscypha austriaca)
Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus)
Tawny Grisette (Amanita fulva)
It's #UKFungusday! I would have been on a foray earlier but the universe has conspired against me. Storm Amy has led to the (sensible) cancellation of the event, and I have also caught myself a stinking cold! Boo!
In lieu of any snaps from today, here are a few of my favourite pre-bsky fungi pics:
