We went on a "Fungi Foray" yesterday afternoon, organised by the local wildlife trust.
The venue was a piece of ancient woodland which is owned by the trust as a reserve, and we were free to forage and collect at will. Being a complete noob when it comes to fungi, I was drawn to one specimen which was the odd one out amongst a small cluster of other ones.
It turns out that I had spotted the only death cap to be seen or collected from the whole foray.
I was actually quite pleased in a bizarre way that I had come face to face with something so innocent to behold and yet so lethal.
Have any of you had an innocent bushy brush with the afterlife?
P.S. I washed, boiled, disinfected and steam cleaned my hands.
The venue was a piece of ancient woodland which is owned by the trust as a reserve, and we were free to forage and collect at will. Being a complete noob when it comes to fungi, I was drawn to one specimen which was the odd one out amongst a small cluster of other ones.
It turns out that I had spotted the only death cap to be seen or collected from the whole foray.
I was actually quite pleased in a bizarre way that I had come face to face with something so innocent to behold and yet so lethal.
Have any of you had an innocent bushy brush with the afterlife?
P.S. I washed, boiled, disinfected and steam cleaned my hands.