kyoto
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Fly Agaric EmergesThere was something Alien-esque about the way this Fly Agaric was emerging from the ground ...
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cab
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Fantastic pictures! How long did that take?
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dpack
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nice snaps
they are usually earlier than now round here
i used to have a patch by my doorstep in a different house ,well pretty .
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kyoto
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cab wrote: | Fantastic pictures! How long did that take? |
I pointed my growth-accelerator ray gun at the little critter, and up it popped in like a jack-in-the-box .... [a-hem]
(pssst .... they were actually 2 specimens of fly agaric that just happened to be next to each other ...)
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sally_in_wales
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beautiful, it seems a good year for them
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Penny Outskirts
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Stunning pics - I've never ever seen one in the flesh
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sean
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There's loads this year. I could post you one if you like?
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Penny Outskirts
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sean wrote: | There's loads this year. I could post you one if you like? |
I'll go hunting I think - but thanks all the same What sort of habitat do they usually live in?
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Jonnyboy
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sean wrote: | There's loads this year. |
Same here, saw plenty of Russula emetica as well
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cab
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Penny wrote: |
I'll go hunting I think - but thanks all the same What sort of habitat do they usually live in? |
Slightly acid soil, and birch trees seem to be their favourite haunt.
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dpack
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the are usually twinned with birch roots but i have seen them under young oak
ps if anyone is wild enough to try them they are very variable both between clumps and through the season ,best avoided ,tis but a short step between flying with the magic reindeer and a tragic misadventure .without careful preperation (12 month process ) an active dose is accompanied with a fairly toxic dose of other active ingredients and even when done properly this experience is more ordeal than bliss out .
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cab
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Or, to put it more succictly, if you're thinking about trying fly agaric, don't.
Although you can make a reasonably effective fly killer out of them. Get a saucer of milk, leave a bit of fly agaric in it on a windowledge, somewhere warmish; you want the milk to start to spoil and dissolve the 'goodies' out of the fly agaric. Flies come down, attracted to the milky shroomy goodness, an they die horribly in fits of wierd hallucinations (or it looks like that from the wierd little walking around things they do).
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dpack
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i think we covered that
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