Red is for danger

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.

Native to the UK, it grows in woodland and heathland on light soils among birch, pine or spruce.

Fly agaric is poisonous and infamous for its psychoactive and hallucinogenic properties, but reports of human deaths are extremely rare. It was traditionally used as an insecticide. The cap was broken up and sprinkled into saucers of milk. It's known to contain ibotenic acid, which both attracts and kills flies – which gave it its name.

 

Scientific name: Amanita muscaria.

 

So pleased to find this on one of Marnie and my walks. I didn't have my 'proper' camera with me so used my mobile phone.

 

~ Edited in Topaz Studio - no actual 'texture' and actually, the original is alright but can't resist trying for better ! I'm sure you know the feeling ! ~

 

Thanks so much, as always, for your comments and just for looking - autumn is REALLY here now in our northern climes.

 

 

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