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ChicksChange @ChicksChange

Know a bit about fungi and wild flowers and growing vegetables. Chicken guardian.

Joined March 2018
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Bulbous Buttercup. The earliest of the four varieties of buttercup that flower near me. Note the reflexed (folded back) sepals and the bulb-like root #WildflowerHour
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Love it when I see a new wildflower for the first time! Coralroot. Scarce and beautiful, just on a verge in the Sussex High Weald #WildflowerHour
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Last spring’s sowing coming into its own. White Lisbon #allotment #gyo
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Signs of spring. The first Cowslips are out! #WildflowerHour
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Bittercress coming into flower. Those 4 stamens help distinguish it from Wavy Bittercress #WildflowerHour
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And here are the pores on that Hazel Bracket #FungiFriday
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The way that Hazel Bracket (Skeletocutis nivea) just envelopes twigs #FungiFriday
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Some super-fresh Collared Earthstars (Geastrum triplex) spotted yesterday for #FungiFriday #fungi
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Peach-leaved Bellflower still in flower for #WildflowerHour on the Winter Solstice!
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Here’s an early Winter Heliotrope to wish all you #WildflowerHour folk a Happy Christmas
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The first daffodils are flowering in my garden already! It’s not even Winter Solstice yet. Spring is coming…
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Can anybody read fungi? This looks like some ancient language #fungi #fungiFriday
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The Devil’s Fingers fungi emerging from their alien looking eggs in time for Halloween #FungiFriday #fungus
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An oak leaf be-jewelled with galls by the tiny Spangle Gall Wasp. Each gall holds a single larva which develops over winter before emerging as an adult in spring.
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White Saddle Fungus. It looks more like a hound’s head to me (Helvella crispa) #fungi
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These are all the same species! Blackening Waxcaps (Hygrocybe conica) doing their colour change trick for #WildFungiHour #fungi #WildflowerHour
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Orange Peel Fungus! Honestly you’d just think it’s discarded orange peel… #WildFungusHour #fungi
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Some huge Crimson Waxcaps in the local cemetery for #WildFungusHour (!)(Hygrocybe punicea) #fungi
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The inspiration for Alien? A Devil’s Fingers fungal egg from which the fungus bursts forth. Several blood red arms emerge before unfolding to reveal the pinkish-red interior… #FungiFriday
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I’ll try and post another pic once it’s burst forth!
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The charmingly named Dog Vomit slime mould. They’re alive and can move, but they’re not animals or fungi (Mucilago crustacea) not #fungus
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