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Small toadstools on a moss-clad piece of fallen wood, silhouetted against the light of the setting sun streaming through the overhanging branches. Image taken at Longshaw Estate, Derbyshire.
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Vliegenzwam (Amanita Muscaria)
Amtsvenn: Hündfelder Moor
I found this small toadstool growing out of a crack in a wooden bench at Blackburn Meadows Nature Reserve in Rotherham. From a low angle I was able to use the autumnal colour of a nearby hedgerow as a backdrop.
Photographed in the dark forest after a week of rain.
Camera: Mamiya RB67 SD
Film: Kodak Portra 400
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With the rainy conditions here in Brisbane at the moment these beautiful little fungi are popping out everywhere.
This popular hoodoo formation is known as the Toadstools. It's only about a mile from the highway and the hike is easy so it gets a lot of visitations. I have seen people climb all over it doing yoga positions, taking selfies, etc. Every time I stop to see it, I wonder if one of the Toadstools will have lost its head because someone decided to do a handstand on it. Fortunately, that has not happened yet.
Happy Slider Sunday!
These toadstools were growing from under the bark of a dead oak tree. Although it doesn't look like it in this photo they were on stalks, rather than bracket fungi. I haven't been able to identify them and would be really happy if someone could. They are perhaps 30-40 mm across & 60-90 mm high.
One of the Icons of the Southwest at late afternoon with best light conditions...and one of my all time favorites.
The Toadstool Hoodoo is a spectacular mushroom shaped rock standing majestically on a large boulder within Rimrocks, which can be accessed from the unmarked trailhead at US highway 89 between mile marker 19 and 20.
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Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric (pronounced /ˈ or fly Amanita (pronounced , is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The quintessential toadstool, it is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually deep red mushroom, one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture. Several subspecies, with differing cap colour have been recognised to date, including the brown regalis (considered a separate species), the yellow-orange flavivolata, guessowii, and formosa, and the pinkish persicina. Genetic studies published in 2006 and 2008 show several sharply delineated clades which may represent separate species.
Although generally considered poisonous, deaths are extremely rare, and it has been consumed as a food in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America after parboiling in water. Amanita muscaria is now primarily famed for its hallucinogenic properties, with its main psychoactive constituent being the compound muscimol. It was used as an intoxicant and entheogen by the peoples of Siberia and has a religious significance in these cultures. There has been much speculation on traditional use of this mushroom as an intoxicant in places other than Siberia; however, such traditions are far less well-documented.