Colourful Amanita Muscaria fungi

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Friday, 19th of May 2023 [68]

Less is more, they say.

I like this saying. I apply it in my daily life quite often, but when it comes to writing I always get too carried away. I also love to overload my articles with way too many captures. All mixed up, topics mixed up too… it’s just like my inside brain… 100 thoughts, all 100 miles per hour. It's exhausting!

What if I can gather my thoughts and focus them on one subject only? Could that work even for a moment? Because even one moment would feel like a good rest from the constant racing in all directions.

Hence why todays post for #FungiFriday by @ewkaw will be about one mushroom only - Amanita Muscaria otherwise known as Fly agaric.


I dug up these captures from my old iPhone7's gallery. Back then I thought my phone takes pretty good quality pictures. Looking at them now, in comparison to the pictures from my iPhone11 I can see a huge difference in the quality.

I do remember that I loved playing with editing apps back then. I must have had a lot of free time back in a day! These days if I find time to post that's already a big success, so editing pictures on top of it feels like a luxury I rarely attempt.

The quality of pictures from the newer phone allows for lack of editing though. Look at this nice bunch of Amanita's! That's their mature stage. Their caps swing to the top, proudly showing thier columns of gills underneath. Don't you just want to crank up the colours a little? My new phone would do so much better job!

Here also mature stage. This one didn't make it in one piece. Most likely slugs got into it, as these holes look like big bites ;)


I do love them in their child stage. They look so cute, like a sweet, red ball with some yummy pieces of cream spotted around.

I wouldn't advise to try and put it in your mouth. Although there are ways of preparing Amanita Muscari which make them safe to eat, in their raw form they are toxic. Not exactly deadly, but it is poisonuous.

The toxins however are water soluble, so properly cooked they can be edible. In truth I never tried. Unless someone who knows what they're doing will prepare them for me, I very much doubt I will be trying this myself 😉

I hear they also have a mildly halucynogenic effect. That part is sure interesting, although same as above applies.


I do wonder if whatever ate a piece of this cute baby got high from eating it?

And if so... did their world become more colourful or did it rather change to black and white?


Here another mature specimen with gills on show. The hat looks like yelly from this angle. I just talked about its toxicity and still, all I can think is food when I look at these pictures.



A few more baby verions:



Until we reach another happy family circle.

Ok, that's maybe a small portion of that circle.



Here is a more round part of the fairy circle. They're always quite a show stoppers when you see so many of them growing in such a big group, visualising the myceliar network that they grow out of.


What I love about this part of the circle is that you can see their cycle of life or stages of maturity. From a tiny ball to a huge, already discoloured mature specimen.

That will be it for today. Let me end with this dramatic capture from the cover of this post. One of the best captures from my old iPhone7. Zero editing, I promise! It was taken inside what we called 'dark forest'. It's a tiny conifier only piece of very young forest. The trees grow so tightly together that they pretty much block all the sun from shining inside this little forest.


Effect on the pictures is quite dramatic indeed.

Before I go... My alt account has been nominated for the author of the week in #SaturdaySavers categhory. Here is the link where you can vote on your favourite author on #threads polls.

Until next time 💙

Camera:iPhone7
Photographer:@fantagira



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Hello dear friend @fantagira good afternoon
I have always wanted to find this type of mushroom, but apparently in this part of the world there are no
Beautiful mushrooms, congratulations on the find

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Oh really? I must consider myself a lucky one then and I’ll try to capture ore of these next season.

Surely there are other cute mushrooms in your region 😁

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Oooooh 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 Beautiful photos of my favourite subject.

I've still not eaten them though I want to! I have some in oil and some in vodka to combine for a liniment as it's meant to be good topical pain relief!

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I’m trying to stretch whatever I have left in my albums and these are from a few years ago.

I still haven’t tried either, but I hope one day I’ll meet someone who can prepare them for me 😁

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Must be the most recognizable mushroom.
But why is it so hard for me to find them?

Happy #Fungifriday :)

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Aww, sorry to hear. You surely must have found a lot of them in Poland, no?
Here I see so many in season that I stop paying attention, but this coming season I just won’t stop clicking them to last for all year round posts 😁

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That's the thing. Not even in Poland. They are just hiding somewhere...

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The toxins however are water soluble, so properly cooked they can be edible. In truth I never tried. Unless someone who knows what they're doing will prepare them for me, I very much doubt I will be trying this myself

I've tried it). But I thought the same way you have all my life).

I hear they also have a mildly halucynogenic effect. That part is sure interesting, although same as above applies.

Oh yeah, but one has to eat quite a lot)

Great pics! Probably the most favorite of the simple mushrooms that can be found in any forest.

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So did you eat quite a lot? I’m quite curious of the effect it can have 😁
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Yes, but it should only be done under supervision. The effect can be unpredictable. Well, everyone's experience is different, and sometimes they are very different.

Personally, I was tossed around different realities every five minutes. Oh, what I didn't see there.)

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