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Fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria)
Photograph by Florian van Duyn, 2017
 

Amanita muscaria, with its deep scarlet cap dotted in white, has long stirred the imagination of travellers who once wandered forest paths believing it marked the threshold of older, half-forgotten worlds. For generations it has been linked with folk rituals, winter tales, and curious woodland happenings, giving the mushroom a place in stories that linger far beyond the trees that shelter it.