I went into the woods this evening
to try to locate a lovely bracket fungi that I had photographed previously.
I needed to look up to find it,
but one must always look down while walking in the woods.
This is how I found the path…
of white mushrooms.
Yes, they are poisonous Amanitas. They are lovely but deadly.
Fear not. I was following their path, not eating them.
A circle of these is called a fairy ring, so I thought of this as a fairy path.
If YOU found a fairy path in the woods wouldn’t YOU follow it?
Every ten feet or so was another cluster of lovely, glowing, white mushrooms.
It went on and on until I had to pause in awe.
There before my very eyes was the Mother of all mushrooms.
It was big enough to wear as a hat.
It was a magical adventure. I am so lucky.
The FLOWER follows a poisonous path through the woods and survives to tell the tale.
floweralley 
Great story exemplifying why I would never become a fungal forager
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I know to “never eat tall white”. I have joined a Mushroom group that does find and eat them. I do not trust my own expertise that much. Too many look similar.
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A fungi fascinator
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That is exactly what I thought. It was so beautiful.
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They are a really interesting group. I have seen more than usual, probably because of the rain.
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Vos photos sont très belles et bien sûr, ne pas manger ces champignons mais ce sous-bois est bien joli 🙂
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Those mushrooms are ridiculously white to be pushing through all that leaf litter. Do they always grow linearly like that? And what an adventure you had! Glad you saw the mothership
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I thought that same thing about their whiteness. Itade me think of that substance on water lily leafs that repels dirt. I have never seen a line like that before. It was magical. I felt transported, without eating a shroom.
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Beautiful shrooms . I agree with you, couldn’t eat the fruit of one of those mushroom logs I received as a gift, wanted labeled produce from Publix.
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I’m barely comfortable eating the ones that I purchase… That said, these white ones look like something fairies would put down.
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