A cluster of six fly agaric mushrooms of varying ages and sizes. In the middle is a large one, with the edges of the cap turning up so that it forms a bowl. Its white gills are clearly visible along the edges. The caps of the smallest mushrooms are still nearly perfectly round and not much larger than golf balls.
The mushrooms are growing on a bare brown forest floor, with just a couple of small ferns and few green leaves of grass poking up between them, contrasting nicely to the red mushrooms.
Fly agaric mushrooms have white stems and gills, and bright red caps with white spots.
In 1784, a guy called Samuel Ödmann thought hey, what if the Vikings ate fly agaric mushrooms to go berserk. He told his friends and they were like, yeah that would’ve been cool.
It’s still taken as a fact today.
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