A beautiful specimen of a favourite toadstool.
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A beautiful specimen of a favourite toadstool.
Image: © Des Colhoun Taken: 11 Oct 2006
This is the Fly Agaric or Amanita muscaria. It's a most familiar toadstool first coming to our attention in children's books. It is highly poisonous, charged with muscimol and muscarino, one hallucinogenic and the other sweat inducing. I'm afraid you don't get a choice as to which one kicks in first!
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Image Location
Latitude
57.33934
Longitude
-3.388845