Nice looking mushroom

[glider64]

It`s a shame about the damage to it and it was over a fence so the leaf had to stay

IMG_1762 by ruffdog64, on Flickr

[Treff]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

Love the colour. Is it Edible?
Cheers
Treff

[Stan]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

Its a fly agaric which unfortunately is past its best. Had you been able to get over the fence and shot more round to the right and lower it would be better

Is it Edible?

only if you want to be ill - its a halucagenic

Stan

[Chris J]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

Yes, the Fly Agaric - Amanita muscaria. Nice looking, traditional mushroom that's the one usually used in kids' books with an elf sitting on top.
Certainly hallucinogenic before you suffer its other effects - it's poisonous.....
Cheers, Chris.

[Trevoreast]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

Well spotted, nice colours. I've often wondered what does the damage to them.
I think the earlier you get up, the more chance you have of finding undamaged ones, I'm not 100% sure of that though.

Certainly hallucinogenic before you suffer its other effects - it's poisonous.....

If it's birds that are pecking these, will they go on a real badddd trip; then die of poisoning ?

Trev

[Trev B]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

Nine times out of ten its slugs that cause the damage, although this week \i witness a roe deer eating some fungi in my garden.
All too often even if you make a early morning start to photograph fungi the slugs have beaten you to it.
A tip. Take a walk around in the early evening, try and find some young examples still well closed. Get a plastic drinks bottle cut the bottom off and place over the fungi. This will act as a mini greenhouse and encourage growth, plus keep slugs at bay. Hopefully next morning you will have a perfect specimen -- try it, it works

[Chris J]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

Hope Glider doesn't mind me adding to his thread -
These Fly Agarics thrive on acid soils and often under Birch trees, as here -



- and it's quite interesting watching them develop, from tight "lollipops" -



- to their full flat form -



These came from a couple of years back. I went back to the same area the next year better equipped with tripod, flash, reflectors etc, but arrived a couple of days late 'cos they'd been wiped out by frost....

Cheers, Chris.

[glider64]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

Nice shot Chris

[hhcanon]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

Nice shots chris - I always feel that if it shouts out 'eat me' it will kill you.
PS Dont want to be picky but did you mean 'Beech'??

[djguk47]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

PS Dont want to be picky but did you mean 'Beech'??

Nope I think he meant Birch as on The Common near my house they are found near Silver Birch.

David

[Chris J]

Re: Nice looking mushroom

Did mean birch not beech - I have birches at the end of my garden and each year they produce a couple (not the ones in my photos). Don't recall seeing them under beech. In the first of my shots you can see fallen birch leaves and the trunks of young birches.
Cheers, Chris.