This Autumn has been a bumper one for toadstool and mushrooms. Seen on one of my local railway walks.

This is a Fly Agaric mushroom, one of many in the genus Amantia. The quintessential toadstool, it is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually deep red mushroom, one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture. Although it is generally considered poisonous, deaths from its consumption are extremely rare, and it is eaten as a food in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America after parboiling.

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