About 1/2 mile from where I live there's a small lake and a wooded area, where this time of year different varieties of fungi can be found.
This first fungi is Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria, the white spots which cover the cap are the remains of a covering which offers protection as the toadstool is pushing its way up through the ground, as the toadstool matures this covering splits and clumps together forming the spots, which eventually fall off.
If eaten, this fungi is poisonous it can cause loss of consciousness, hallucinations and may prove fatal.
The second, Candle snuff or Stag's horn fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon.
Fungi lack leaves, stems or roots and has no chlorophyll, it reproduces by spores. The visible structures which contain the spores are sometimes referred to as fruiting bodies.
Stinkhorn, Phallus impudicus when mature, the olive green coloured spore mass covering a honeycomb like conical head is supported by a white cylindrical shaped column.
Smell very unpleasant and perceptible from a distance.
