Fly Agaric - Blog Posts
Some wild fungi photos that I have taken this autumn. It always amazes me how quickly the fruiting bodies develop and the immense diversity of forms and colors that they can take.
I will probably be using this account to store photos that I have taken so I can use them later on, for work or in my art. Hopefully others will find them interesting or useful as well. I will avoid posting my art and other unrelated posts here.
The top one is the cap of a fly-agaric (a fairytale toadstool). I don’t know what species the others are but they were all photographed in the southeast of the UK.
(fly) Aga (-ric mushroom)
🍄name: Aga
🍄age: 180+ "Mushroom" years (18 human years)
🍄height: 105 cm
Mushroom fact of the week!
The white spots viewed on the fly agaric are actually not a part of the cap at all!
Many fungi’s fruiting bodies form inside a small sac, which when it breaks open becomes the universal veil. It's actually pieces of this sac that stick to the cap of the fly agaric becoming the appearance of white spots! If you were to touch the cap the spots would wipe off quite easily
Funguary Day 13: Fly Agaric
The Fly Agaric is quite possibly the most iconic mushroom there is. It was traditionally used as an insecticide. The cap was broken into pieces and sprinkled into saucers of milk. It contains ibotenic acid which both attracts and kills flies, thus, giving it its name.
See the rest of my posts for funguary here!
Art from this semester! I got to do a really fun project with my printmaking professor: I made a digital design (very right), had it laser cut/printed onto some plywood (center), and got to print it out onto paper (very left)!
The big mushroom in the center is based on a Fly Agaric mushroom (think the traditional mushroom with a red cap and white spots).