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Mushrooms and Toadstool, must be Fall
If you had not noticed, summer is over and it is getting colder and wetter. To paraphrase Julius Caesar: guttula iacta est. Or to put it in plain English: the droplet has been thrown. We can no longer go back and will have to see this fallthrough. So, to help you through this perilous time,…
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Slow worm
Anguis fragilis, Hazelworm, Blindschleiche, Orvet, Lucion Intro An animal that is neither a worm, nor a snake, yet is called one and often confused with the other. Why is it neither a worm, nor a snake? Because it is a lizard. Unlike worms, it has a spine, and unlike snakes, it has eyelids. This beautiful…
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Fly Agaric
Amanita muscaria, Vliegenzwam, Amanite tue-mouches (fausse oronge), Fliegenpilz, matamoscas (falsa oronja) Intro The fly agaric, the mushroom carrying the responsibility to be the face of fungi. The most commonly depicted mushroom when asked what a fungus looks like. Fortunately, fungi don’t care who’s the most popular or prettiest among them, because we all know this…