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Nature Reserve, Banner Lane, Tile Hill, Coventry CV4
Antique book bought in Utrect. This is my favorite of all the mushrooms in my collection. The cover is so stunning! Looks to be litho or screen printed.
Actually it's a frog on a honey fungus (Armillaria mellea), Wentwood Forest, Gwent.
synonyms: Armillaire couleur de miel, Boot-lace Fungus, Hallimasch, Honey Fungus, Tête de meduse
location: North America, Europe
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown, Grey to beige, Orange
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Ring on stem, Bulbous base of stem
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Grows on wood
Armillaria mellea (Vahl. ex Fr.) Kummer syn. Clitocybe mellea (Vahl. ex Fr.) Ricken Hallimasch, Armillaire couleur de miel, Tête de meduse, Honey Fungus or Boot-lace Fungus Cap 3–12cm across, very variable, convex then flattened and centrally depressed or wavy, yellow ochre, tawny, to dark brown, often with an olivaceous tinge, covered in darker fibrillose scales especially at the centre. Stem 60–150×5–15mm, often tapering towards the base, yellowish becoming reddish-brown at the base, initially with a thick whitish to yellow cottony ring. Flesh white. Taste astringent, smell strong. Gills white at first then yellowish becoming pinkish-brown and often darker spotted with age. Spore print pale cream. Spores elliptic, 8–9 x 5–6µ. Habitat in dense clusters on or around trunks or stumps of deciduous and coniferous trees and Hazel. Season summer to early winter. Very common. Edible when cooked but should only be eaten in small amounts as some forms are known to cause stomach upsets. Distribution, America and Europe.
The fungus spreads by long black cords called rhizomorphs resembling bootlaces which can be found beneath the bark of infected trees, on roots or in the soil where they can travel large distances to infect other trees. This is one of the most dangerous parasites of trees, causing an intensive white rot and ultimately death; there is no cure and the fungus is responsible for large losses of timber each year.
info by Roger Phillips:
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a mushroom 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 and birch plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees.
This quintessential toadstool is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually red mushroom, and is one of the most recognisable and widely encountered in popular culture. Several subspecies with differing cap colour have been recognised, including the brown regalis (often considered a separate species), the yellow-orange flavivolvata, guessowii, formosa, and the pinkish persicina. Genetic studies published in 2006 and 2008 show several sharply delineated clades that may represent separate species.
Although classified as poisonous, reports of human deaths resulting from its ingestion are extremely rare. After parboiling—which weakens its toxicity and breaks down the mushroom's psychoactive substances—it is eaten in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. Amanita muscaria is noted for its hallucinogenic properties, with its main psychoactive constituent being the compound muscimol. The mushroom 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 possible traditional use of this mushroom as an intoxicant in other places such as the Middle East, Eurasia, North America, and Scandinavia.
source: Wikipedia
So, sometimes I feel like sewing multiples of something. I generally don't do that because I get bored of doing the same thing over and over again. That's one of the reasons why most of our pieces are one-of-a-kind. But this time I felt like I "needed" to make several of these polkadot recycled velvet toadstools, because it is fun to hold a bunch of them in your hands. Now I got them out of my system and I'm ready for something new :) If you wish to hold any of our red or pastel color toadstools in your hands (love their textures) don't hesitate to contact us for details.
We also wanted to share that we created a Children's Drawing Pool for everyone to share children's drawings for inspiration. Visit and share :) We'd love to see what kids all over the world draw about.
Toadstools
recycled fabrics
cotton and velvet
by Lizette Greco
Amanita muscaria, the fly agaric, in its final stages - after starting out as dome then spreading out as a plate it appears the the edges finally fold over revealing the gills.
A tiered chocolate cake for a little girl turning 4. I really enjoyed doing this cake, as you may tell. My favourite bit is the trail of ladybirds.
Little ones and big ones, all carved out of the side of a hill.... Quite an amazing place to walk around.