Jassy Drakulic
@jassydrak.bsky.social
RHS Senior Plant Pathologist and resident mycologist based at Wisley Author of the RHS DK book Fungi for Gardeners: https://linktr.ee/jassydrak
🌿 Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 2026 🌿 Join leading researchers sharing evidence-based insights on ponds, pollinators, fungi and urban mammals. Coming up on 14th Jan. More details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717... @jeffollerton.bsky.social @jassydrak.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe.... www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...
Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See… - Plantlife
Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be the best in Europe. Discover the pressures these colourful fungi and their habitats face...
plantlife.org.uk
After the disappointment of Wisley’s Fungus Day being cancelled by Storm Amy, yesterday I had the privilege of doing a Fungus walk with Liz, the Principal Plant Pathologist for the RHS. It was so interesting and informative. These are just a few we spotted. 🌱 #mushroomMonday #fungusfriends
THIS WEEK HAS SAUCE 4 Stunning fossils in sedimentary rocks reveal a new and co-oldest Early Cretaceous gilled mushroom-forming fungus Edaphagaricites conicus gen. nov. et sp. nov. academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...
My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now! Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK. Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄 Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems #fungifriends
🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation. Read more from @mongabay.com :
Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of…
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🎲 Looking for something new for game night? Why not try one of these fungus board games — forage, grow, and strategize your way through the through the fungal kingdom! Reviews in this #UKFungusDay blog by Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social: ukfungusday.co.uk/fungusboardgames
Fungus board games | UK Fungus Day
Many games incorporate fungi for visual or narrative flair, but these three titles go further—creating immersive gameplay rooted in actual mycological processes.
ukfungusday.co.uk
A before and after of some fun early autumn fungi at RHS Wisley: Bolete tbd species and Shaggy inkcap Coprinus comatus. One will become ink for #UKFungusDay artwork and the other has made a nice ochre spore print #gardens #fungi #mycology #outreach
🍄🌱 Gardens can be fungal hotspots — if we let them! In this blog for #UKFungusDay, Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social at The RHS explores how garden practices can encourage (or suppress) fungi & why that matters for #SoilHealth & #Biodiversity. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiingardens #Gardening
🍄 What’s the secret life of fungi in your garden? Discover how they help plants thrive with Dr @jassydrak.bsky.social in How Fungi Make Gardens Flourish 📅 14 Jan 2026 | Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717...
@fundive-fungi.bsky.social is a Europe-wide project to better understand & protect fungi. Find, photograph & document fungi and join us to help reveal Europe's fungal diversity! Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check https://fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved/ for more information!
Marbled interior, smells sweet... Not a truffle, but a conker full of honey fungus! This one was being used to test whether honey fungus affects ornamental grasses/wedges which have become popular horticultural plants #ArmiArmy #fungi #planthealth
The Midas mushroom paper is out from the Pringle lab - the story of how cultivated fungi can escape and cause environmental harm. We need more native fungal strains available for cultivation so home growers can grow without these risks www.sciencealert.com/cuisine-fad-...
Cuisine Fad Unleashes Invasive Threat Into The US Wilderness
Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, delicious and easy to grow at home from mushroom kits.
sciencealert.com
It´s all about old water towers that look like fungi! old water tower in Saxony (Alt-Ottenhain) #watertower
Albertiniella polyporicola, a tiny fungus (compare with pore size) on the underside of Ganoderma fruiting bodies. #fungi #fungifriends #mycology
Plz share: Do you grow Privet? RHS scientists want your help! Privet is the #1 host for honey fungus root rot, but some species are worse hit than others. Help us with our research by completing this short survey: tinyurl.com/4bj93ah3 Privet ID guide found here: tinyurl.com/5fzumd74
Privet honey fungus survey
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The #ArmiArmy has a new recruit - Mary Coates from University of York is doing a 10 week project at Wisley to develop faster ways to screen plants for resistance to armillaria root rot aka honey fungus 🍯🍄 #mycology #applied #invitro #mentorship #plantpathology #planthealth #horticulture
The preprint of my second first-author paper (with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social) is out! Read to find out how virus-resistant companion plants can control spread of non-persistently transmitted plant viruses: www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220... @camplantsci.bsky.social @caiuscollege.bsky.social
Vivid orange rust pustules on the back of burnet roses along the south coast path on the Isle of Portland #plantpathology #rustfungus #wildflowers
Beautiful day to be working at Wisley. Two fantastic Hilltop Live presentations by our Pathologists for Plant Health Week #PHW2025 Big props to Sam for making his #honeyfungus research so clear for the visitors, even explaining its benefits to nutrient cycling in nature #ArmiArmy
Celebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉 My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read. ➡️ fieldmycology.org Please read and share!
Signs of fungi on trees in a south London park: dried up Pleurotus ostreatus oyster mushrooms on a standing deciduous tree and huge black plaques resulting from some sort of other saprotrophic fungus #fungifriends #mycology
Engyodontium aranearum found in the shed today, on a poor Long-bodied Cellar spider, Pholcus phalangioides. @britishspiders.bsky.social #fungi #fungifriends
Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!
