21 year old Botanist. Cornish Botany Group. BSBI Events & Communications chair. Learning naturalist. 2ndt year BSc Conservation Bio @plymuni #iamabotanist
Joined June 2020
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19 Nov 2021
Hazel Glove fungus (Hypocreopsis rhododendri) is an indicator species of Atlantic rainforest, a rare and declining habitat within the UK. This local patch of Hazel scrub isn't recognised on any Ordnance Survey map from the last 120 years! Perhaps unacknowledged rainforest?
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20 Aug 2025
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Final refueling of trams and audience for Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. Starts streaming 13:30 BST today 20 August on YouTube. @BotanicalUniversityChallenge
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29 Sep 2024
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It’s the best time of year!
It’s when my pasture is grazed low on purpose so my bloody lovely #waxcap fungi get to shine like the beauties they are!!
Only a few out so far, but I can almost smell the rest just waiting to make an appearance!
ALT Possibly a citrine waxcap. Not up to speed yet on id this year.
ALT Parrot waxcap all green and yellow
ALT ? Vermillion waxcap? Don’t know. Will check later. Am rusty as it’s been a year!
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10 Sep 2024
Pleased to take some members of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire to #LyeValley #fen to appreciate everything about the remarkable Grass of Parnassus, still flowering in abundance in a restoration area. Thanks to C. Hoskin for the photo. @friendlyevalley
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3 Sep 2024
Grass of Parnassus in #LyeValley #fen #SSSI seems to get well pollinated despite deceiving insects with its branched 'false nectaries' - groups of shining globules, look like nectar drops, but give none.... here just a variety of inverts searching,or just resting, in the flowers.
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Congratulations to @Cambridge_Uni Backs Buttercups on winning the Botanical University Challenge finals last week!
👉tinyurl.com/mr2986ek
🎉🏆🌱🌸
ALT Left to right: Bertie Titley, Lottie Apsey, Dr. Jonathan Mitchley (Reading, a key organiser of event), Yi Zhao, Andrew Berley, Jake Dalzell (team captain).
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1 Sep 2024
Autumn Lady’s-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) was quite frequent on short dune turf at Gwithien in Cornwall this week, always lovely to see #wildflowerhour #orchids
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1 Sep 2024
The improbable Babington’s Leek (Allium ampeloprasum babingtonii) almost 2m tall at Gwithien Towans, Cornwall - a British (including Channel Is) endemic. Hard to miss! #wildflowerhour
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2 Sep 2024
Flanders Moss in Scotland looking lovely in the sunshine this past weekend - including another #bogdog
📸 taken by the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of Peatlands project
#PeatTwitter #PeatColours
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1 Sep 2024
Nice morning on the locally restored heathland near my house. Despite the muggy weather a few Whitethroat,Wheatear & Chiffchaff around along with all the regular bits & bobs.
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31 Aug 2024
Had a brilliant few days in Oxford for @BUCBotany 2024! Everyday was jam-packed with inspired talks, good food, and most importantly- botanical fun! Here's to @BUCBotany 2025! 🌱
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29 Aug 2024
The survivors photo after a fabulously varied day 2 - the careers and employability day @BUCBotany 2nd Student Botany Festival @QueensCollegeOx
#BUC2024 @OBGHA @GatsbyEd @NewPhyt @BSBIbotany @FSCBiodiversity
ALT Survivors photo after a fabulously varied day 2 - the careers and employability day Botanical University Challenge 2nd Student Botany Festival at The Queens College, Oxford.
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26 Aug 2024
What a tree! 🌳😍This Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) has a diameter of well over 2 meters. Hard to translate the size in pictures. Probably one of the most impressively big trees I have come across in the UK #trees #SummerBankHoliday @AncientTreesATF
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23 Aug 2024
Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 semifinal team from team Backs Buttercups University of Cambridge. For a reminder sign up at forms.office.com/e/Aw2uJn5vW… Streamed live on the day, then recorded YouTube youtube.com/@BotanicalUniver… @plantsci @CUBotanicGarden @HamishSymington
ALT Botanical University Challenge 2024 semifinal team from University of Cambridge. For a reminder sign up at https://forms.office.com/e/Aw2uJn5vWq Streamed live on the day and then available recorded from YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUniversityChallenge/streams
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Billy Fullwood retweeted
22 Aug 2024
New ‘Tracking the Colour of Peatlands’ site has been installed - Lochend - a @PeatlandACTION restoration site on Shetland!
#PeatTwitter #PeatColours
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22 Aug 2024
Day 1 of 2024 Azores field trip. The scenery at this new field site is not too bad. We are looking at plant adaptations to salinity in buck's horn plantain and the Azorean species of sea lavender @PlymBioMarSci @PlymUni @BotanyCornwall
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Billy Fullwood retweeted
21 Aug 2024
The @BUCBotany tote bags have arrived filled with botanical goodies for all at the 2nd Student Botany Festival @QueensCollegeOx from 28 August! Watch the contest here: bit.ly/46Tr6ju or follow the QR code.
#BUC2024 @OBGHA @GatsbyEd @NewPhyt @BSBIbotany @FSCBiodiversity
ALT Custom designed tote bags for the Botanical University Challenge 2nd Student Botany Festival 28-29 August, Queens College, Oxford
ALT The semi-finals and finals of Botanical University Challenge between Cambridge, Kew, York and Reading will take place on 28th August from 2pm, follow the link or QR code to watch the live stream!
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Billy Fullwood retweeted
16 Aug 2024
A view of the Camel Estuary from Rock, oh and a little spirally flower too.
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16 Aug 2024
It's real!!
Very excited to hold in my hands a hardback copy of my new book, THE LIE OF THE LAND - an expose of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain.
Published 12th September - pre-order yours here: lnkfi.re/dsHR7n
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15 Aug 2024
Sad to see these two local Elms getting the chop- they had been going strong until the 2022 heatwave. I spoke to some of the guys doing the work and managed to secure some sizable cross sections for dendrochronlogy work. The memory of these trees will live on with me!
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13 Aug 2024
The end of an era this evening, as my last meeting as part of @BSBIbotany 's Events & Communications Committee draws to a close. It's been a great 9 years supporting a fantastic data-led organisation that promotes and supports British and Irish botany for all!
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