Iodine Bonnet. Mycena filopes

FUNGI

14 Oct 2019

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11 comments

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Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)

Famous, enchanting and highly toxic. Fly agaric is the home of fairies and magical creatures and a lover of birch woodland, where it helps trees by transferring nutrients into their roots, but if eaten can cause hallucinations and psychotic reactions and even death.

30 Nov 2019

39 favorites

16 comments

748 visits

Iced fungi

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

30 Nov 2019

22 favorites

5 comments

607 visits

Iced fungi

My favourite sort of morning, low sun and thick frost. These tiny frosted fungi were found on a cut tree stump, which can be seem in PiP 1 if you look closely. PiP 2 shows a close-up of the larger fungus. PiP 3 is an ice puddle.

12 Sep 2020

37 favorites

17 comments

414 visits

The Parasol, Macrolepiota procera.

Stem White/off white/cream, often very slightly mottled grey to brown with a kind of snakeskin effect. Coming from a bulb a little like the amanitas, strong and up to 30 cm almost always with the skirt still on nearly 2/3 of the way up the stem. Hollow on cutting and often very fibrous.

21 Sep 2020

31 favorites

17 comments

434 visits

Chlorophyllum rhacodes - Shaggy Parasol

15 Oct 2020

29 favorites

13 comments

650 visits

Puff balls. Lycoperdon species I think

These fungi were photographed on the same day as the bramble flowers. nature seems a bit confused. The second PiP is a mature form of Fly agaric.

17 Oct 2020

27 favorites

12 comments

332 visits

The colony

31 Oct 2020

16 favorites

8 comments

411 visits

Mexican wave

Wildlife in Ruyton XI Towns on Hallowe'en.

16 Nov 2020

15 favorites

6 comments

647 visits

Tiny mushroom growing in a pine cone. Baeospora myosura?

Our challenge for today was to find some very small fungi that grow in fallen pine cones. There is a mixed woodland near where we live with numerous pines, redwoods and spruce as well as broad-leaved trees' so off we went. We only found 2 in the whole of the woodland, both growing on Scots pine cones; but we thoroughly enjoyed the 3 mile walk and the thorough search.
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