Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dead 6ft leatherback turtle, a red garden spider, and the flowering lives of dandelions
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dead 6ft leatherback turtle, a red garden spider, and the flowering lives of dandelionswhen we were getting our Halloween pumpkin. They look just like the mushrooms in one of our storybooks. Are they real?They are real all right. They are called the fly agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria. It would be very dangerous indeed to eat this mushroom as it contains toxins that have caused people who foolishly did eat it to die.
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