Amanita muscaria

[zafra52]

I took this picture in New Zealand, but this species can
be found also in Australia under pine trees.
Its scientific name is Amanita muscaria.
Sprinkling its cap with sugar or crashing
it with milk makes a poisonous bait that kills flies -
only flies? I wonder... I hope keep your pets keep away
from it.

[christiand]

also DONT'T dry and SMOKE it ,
you may find yourselfy under the illusion of riding a broomstick (flying)
or turning into an animal or even both

Cheers,
CD

[christiand]

 BTW,

amanita muscaria is called Fliegenpilz (Fly Mushroom) in German.
(Fliege (Fly) being the insect and Pilz = Mushroom).
Amanita muscaria is poisenous and can kill !

Cheers,
CD

[MCWB]

only flies? I wonder... I hope keep your pets keep away
from it.

Lovely pic! It will indeed kill more than flies, it'll even kill humans if they ingest enough (which, thankfully, is still quite a bit for this particular species).

Christian, in English it's also called the fly agaric.

[ATJ]

How cool looking is that? It looks a bit like raw meat that has gone off. Did it smell at all?

Its scientific name is Amanita Muscaria.

By the way, scientific names have sentence style capitalization. The first letter of the genus is capitalised and all the remaining letters are lower case. They are typically italicised, too. i.e. Amanita muscaria.

[zafra52]

Thank you guys. No I did not noticed any smell, but it looked quite attractive and was quite large. By the way, I did not know that Latin names were written with the first letter in capital, so thanks for that.