Always entertaining and a joy to find Sean Bean's plant, Thesium humifusum (Bastard-toadflax); masses of it in flower today at Fontmell Down, Dorset. 17/10/2026. Seems late in the season? @lizlouise.bsky.social

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Red Campion, Silene dioica. Take a look for Campion Anther Smut fungus, Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae on male flowers. Infected plants have brownish-mauve anthers due to the fungal spores and you can often see a dusting on the petals.

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Oooh it does look like a cat's tongue!

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Thanks - a little rain and the fungi down here are finally coming alive !

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Stubble Rosegill, Volvopluteus gloiocephalus, in woodchip by a path at Wandlebury #Cambridge. @cambridgeppf.bsky.social #FungiFriday

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