This week’s walk, ten miles along Marriots Way, yielded loads of the trooping toadstools. And these little beauties ….
A family of fungi raise their funnels through pine loppings : 22 Oct 2018
I was particularly taken with the colour-combo here, that delicate apricot amongst the fading green (almost blue) of the dying pine.
And then there was this. The one, the only one (lo, where have they all gone?) …
A fly agaric pushes its head through the compacted grit of the wayside bank: 22 October 2018
In previous years this stretch of Marriots Way has been totally speckled with these bright and poisonous hallucigenic red-caps. I put their scarcity down to the weather.
Wow! Love…
LikeLiked by 1 person
I thank you. Stay glued to this place …. more fungi later
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yay!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I love that little red and white mushroom!
LikeLiked by 1 person
You mean the one you eat if you want to see fairies? It used to be seen on Christmas cards in Eastern Europe, And it’s the winter food of reindeers; probably what makes them fly.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Haha! No, I wouldn’t want to eat one. But I can see why they appear in a lot of fairy artwork 🙂
And if the reindeer are eating them, then I can see why they’re able to fly!
LikeLiked by 1 person
The fly agaric has several interesting cultural associations. I wrote a post about its possible cultic use some times ago. https://crimsonprose.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/the-chap-in-the-red-cap-revisited/
LikeLiked by 1 person
You weren’t kidding when you said you’d be posting more mushrooms, hooray! That red cap is bizarre — it looks like it shouldn’t be real, but it is. It is definitely advertising its warning very effectively, how fascinating!
LikeLiked by 2 people
The little red one is a fly agaric. If you’re interested in learning more about this fungi, and in particular its possible cultic use, check out this post: https://crimsonprose.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/the-chap-in-the-red-cap-revisited/
It might contain material you can mine for your world building. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ooh, very useful material, thanks!
LikeLike
Happy to provide … 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person