#the flying forest

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[lionfloss]

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[most-splendidly]

Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria mushrooms on a mossy riverbank

[michaelnordeman]

A forest near Grythyttan in Västmanland, Sweden (August 27, 2019).

[julianplum]

❄️🪿🪽🦌🌞 // willow grouse in winter // gouache on hot press paper

[margocooper]

Царство красочных красных мухоморов в октябрьском лесу. The kingdom of colorful red fly agarics in the October forest.

[oldschoolfrp]

Playing for the snails and salamanders in the heart of the forest (John L Barnes cover for Sorcerer's Apprentice 15, Flying Buffalo, Summer 1982)

[aurosoulart]

peryton sun god Daybringer visits my living room to grant a final gift of light before the Autumn equinox 🌄✨

see more art of him here!

[andulkaphoto]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was flying to another country with my friends & family and when we arrived, Bill Cipher was waiting for my plane. He then proceeded to transform into Sugilite from Steven Universe and hunt me down?? This eventually led to me running into the forest and hitching a ride in a flying car to escape (all my friends were killed and I was oddly relaxed about this for some reason) until he finally captured me, gave me a knife, then repeatedly told me to stab him with it. When I woke up I felt genuinely unnerved.

[moreariivlephotos]

Practicing editing with some fly agarics.

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Amanita muscaria

[suja-janee]

So did Ashrah tell the shaolin she was bringing Sareena, or did they just have to find out the hard way?

[stompin]

[vandaliatraveler]

Walk with me: Mid-summer hike through a Central Appalachian forest. As summer hurtles toward its final explosive act, the forest's living things embrace urgent, primordial impulses triggered by shrinking daylight: to bloom, to seed, to feed, and to reproduce before the killing frost of Autumn shocks the earth into hibernation. In the deep forest, the fetid perfume of decaying fungi signals the countdown has begun. From top: a bumblebee traversing the fanning pink flowers of hollow-stemmed Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium fistulosum); the maturing red stem and flowers of seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia), also known as rattlebox and square-pod water-primrose, a very attractive wetlands annual with four-sided seed capsules; cowbane (Oxypolis rigidior), also known as common water dropwort, a delicate, marsh-loving member of the carrot family that also happens to be toxic; Allegheny hawkweed (Hieracium paniculatum), also known as panicled hawkweed, a spindly-stemmed member of the dandelion tribe; the lovely and hallucinogenic fly agaric (Amanita muscaria); a sprawling colony of sulphur shelf fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus), an edible delicacy otherwise known as chicken of the woods; a red eft (Notophthalmus viridescens); white wood aster (Eurybia divaricata); a twin set of common puffballs (Lycoperdon perlatum); the fungal version of suburban sprawl courtesy of orange moss agaric (Rickenella fibula); a gelatinous serving of orange witches' butter (Dacrymyces chrysospermus); a fiery clump of eastern Jack-o-lanterns (Omphalotus illudens); a potter wasp (Ancistrocerus campestris) drinking from the clumped white flowers of virgin's bower (Clematis virginiana); one of my all-time favorite critters, a locust borer (Megacyllene robiniae), taking its nectar fill from flat-top goldentop (Euthamia graminifolia), also known as grass-leaved goldenrod; a green metallic sweat bee (Augochloropsis ?) finding sustenance from parasol white-top (Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata), also known as flat-top aster; and the intricate purple flowers of tall ironweed (Vernonia gigantea).

[mydododiedandthenreactivated]

Spotty Boi

Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita

The fly agaric mushroom—bright red, white-spotted, and straight out of a fairy tale—is as fascinating as it is toxic. Historically, it’s been a bug killer, a Viking battle drug, a shamanic portal to the spirit world, and maybe even the secret ingredient behind Santa Claus! Siberian shamans tripped on it, and some daring souls even drank shaman pee to share the high (seriously). But beware—this mushroom is no snack. Its mind-bending effects come with serious risks! ☠️🍄🍄🍄