Fungi Friday 🍄

Happy Fungi Friday!

An interesting find on a visit to Mayo in Ireland this week. September is a good month for deathcaps, and so it showed.

The first thing I saw was this upturned mushroom cap, which I went to inspect. You can see the remnants of a veil at the edges of the underside. That’s an Amanita indicator as far as I know.

I turned the cap over and immediately the colouring and pattern clicked – deathcap, Amanita phalloides.

Less than a metre away was this lovely 👀 little mushroom which has been knocked over, possibly walked over. I was confident then that this was a little crop of deathcaps.

Obviously this isn’t a public health resource, but it’s probably best not to do what this person did and eat a white mushroom without actually knowing what it is.

Thanks for reading.