Rebecca Wheeler
@botany_beck
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Obsessed with the natural world, esp. #fungi, wildflowers & native orchids. Wildlife gardener #ForestSchool Practitioner🌿Leads #WildflowerHour @wildflower_hour
Warrington, England
Joined July 2016
My absolute favourite 💙 Mertensia maritima, Oysterplant Such a joy to see this gorgeous plant again this week! Caithness #WildflowerHour
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I found an even bigger Blushing Rosette today and it was really going for it, so many guttation droplets!! Such a weird and wonderful fungus! 🥰 #FungiFriday
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Not seen this before, think it’s Green Brittlegill, Russula aeruginia, found beneath Silver Birch. Caps of the mature specimens were very green, younger ones were paler. Stipe chalk white & tapering at base, gills white & crowded. Such a pretty mushroom 💚 #FungiFriday
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It was really hard to concentrate at work today, the Amanitas were looking STUNNING!! I think these are all Amanita rubescens but as always happy to be corrected ☺️ #MushroomMonday #FungiFriday
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I think this might be the prettiest Blusher, Amanita rubescens, I’ve ever seen!! Isn’t it beautiful! 🥰 #MushroomMonday #FungiFriday
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Here’s a strange one for #MushroomMonday, the Blushing Rosette, Abortiporus biennis. It has 2 growth forms, it can form an attractive rosette but more commonly exists as an amorphous mass which exudes red-brown liquid. Just look at those guttation droplets!!! 😍
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One of the very best days, #orchid-hunting with my good mate and fellow @Mariposa_Nature leader @thenewgalaxy in Madeira. We found over 20 flowering plants of European über-rarity, Goodyera macrophylla. A day of amazing plants, great company, good laughs, and muddy boots!
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Mushroom season, anyone seen one of these? "Fly Agaric" Fungi miniature hand embroidery artwork, framed, ready to hang on the wall. https://t.co/MBUjw2orKw
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Amethyst Deceiver, Laccaria amethystina looking absolutely glorious this afternoon 💜 #FungiFriday
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Not seen this one before, reminded me of a Pluteus species. Only one that seems to fit looking in my book is Pluteus chrysophlebius, Yellow Deer Mushroom. Vivid and emerging from a very decomposed log in mature deciduous woodland. #FungiFriday
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WOW! My favourite Amanita spot didn’t disappoint!!! I nearly lost my mind, a whole FAIRY RING of Fly Agarics, some as big as dinner plates!! #FungiFriday 🥰🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🧚
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How flooofy is this Webcap! I’ve not managed to see a Cortinarius species at this stage before where the web-like universal veil is stretched from the bulbous base to the edge of the cap. Perfectly illustrates why they are named Webcaps!! #FungiFriday
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Woohoo! It’s definitely autumn when you spot your first Fly Agaric of the year! Isn’t it a beauty! Amanita muscaria, a bit early for #FungiFriday 🍄
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This Shaggy Inkcap, Coprinus comatus, is just beginning to deliquesce (dissolve away into a black inky liquid) I love the drip at the bottom 🖤 #MushroomMonday
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I love this time time of year, it was lovely to have time for a little lunchtime #fungi foray! So happy to see that the Rosy Bonnets are up and aren’t those Penny Buns adorable! 🥰 🍄🟫🍁 #MushroomMonday #Autumn2025
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Nice to see more #fungi appearing for #mushroommonday. 🔁 from top left, lots of Persistent Waxcaps, Pestle Puffball, Redlead Roundhead, a white Poisonpie with fascinating weeping gills and lastly centre, a beautiful blush Brittlegill - possibly The Flirt? 🤔☺️
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