Mushrooms

Fly Agaric Mushroom

This is a mushroom I have admired for years.  I now think that I had it confused with another mushroom in the same family.  I used to call it Pincone Lepidella.  Both kinds grow in the island of the parking lot.  My error, I think, stemmed from confusion about the plates in my ID book,  Mushrooms by Kent H. and Vera B. McKnight.  I used to think that the plates were all in color but a few were not.  Recently, I have come to understand that the ones in "black and white" were showing color.  I have come to respect the accuracy of the plates this season to a greater extent.

Fly Agaric Mushroom

The book says that it is poison.  Do not eat!

I also learned some things about the parts of this mushroom which I will share tomorrow.

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