Young Fly Agaric in the early morning

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:30 am

Got my knee wet taking this one.

Bruce

Nikon D80, ISO100, 1/60s at f/11, fill flash

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JoanYoung · Post by **JoanYoung** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:55 am

Wow Bruce!! This is the most beautiful mushroom I have ever seen. Here I am not finding anything except white ones and one or two brown ones. Wonderful pic!!

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:54 am

Nice Amanita muscaria photograph, the rainwater looks great with it!

geting down and dirty for the shot is allways the best, good on you!

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:13 pm

Holy Mario Bros. Bruce, it's a super mushroom

Many a far flung year ago, this mushroom was crushed and put into a bowl of milk, to be set aside to draw flies, ibotenic acid is the fly killer in these mushrooms. More than likely that is where Fly Amanita origniated as the name or fly agaric.

Don't know exactly where you found this one but wet knees are common when photographing these mushrooms for the most part but I have found that they mostly are found around conifers and are symbionts of the same. They are also pretty much a cosmopolitain fungi, that having to do with the distribution of pine tree seedlings worldwide I believe. Universal veil remnants on the red cap seem to be the most striking for ID purposes but there are other features to look for concerning postive ID as well of the species.

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:49 am

Joan - Yes the fly agaric is a beautiful fungus isn't it. The "adult" form is quite large and is if anything, even more striking. Thanks for your enthusiastic comments

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Adrian - Surprisingly for England it was a beautiful sunny morning. It had been a clear and frosty night and the ground mist had just lifted. I usually kneel on a poo bag (dog type

) but on this occasion I'd forgotten to put it down before I knelt to take the pic

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Ken - This one was growing by the side of a lake in country park in Berkshire. Tree planting was sparse and (as far as I can remember) mainly broad-leaf. Thanks for the information on the species - very interesting as always

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Bruce

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:39 pm

WOW, being very moist and humid really brought out the color Bruce. Excellent picture. Take some more when it flattens out

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:31 am

Thanks Doug. I remember you saying it was going to be a good year for fungi - and you were so right!

Bruce

ps - Doug - thanks too for your comments on my Stagshorn posting