Yesterday I decided to take a walk in the afternoon with my two little ones and look for pine cones and acorns to make fairy hats and christmas trees for decorating. we walked up the hill behind our house, up an old fire road lined with ucalyptus, shrub oaks, blackberry brambles and pine trees. We found lots of ucalyptus which would work fine for fairy hats and chairs and some pine cones for making trees and funny animals for Christmas decorations.
When we got up the hill and I had pulled them up the side to the top where there was a little park we walked further up a narrow path and we saw the m ost amazing sight! It was a bright red ball with white spots on it, and as we came closer we saw that it was a toad stool very much in the nature of a fairy toad stool! I’ve read that red mushrooms with white spots can be quite poisonous, so I warned the kids away, but could not help but to take a few pictures with my camera phone. As we looked further, we saw there were quite a few fungus types growing nearby so we took photos of those as well. What we are wondering is if anyone knows what types of fungus these are??