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Scleroderma citrinum, the vulgar scleroderm, also called common scleroderm, lemon scleroderma or orange scleroderm grows in the undergrowth during the summer to autumn. They are usually found at the foot of chestnut trees.

$Autumn in pre-Pyrenees, Catalonian undergrowth.. during autumn season.\n\nLepiota$

A common earthball fungus, Scleroderma citrinum, on a forest floor.

The fruiting bodies of the puffer are in the field, North China

Giant wolf's vesse (calvatia gigantea) in a meadow.

A mushroom resembling a skull emerging from the ground

Wild Lactifluus piperatus - Edible and excellent taste.

$Amanita phalloides (Fr.) Link in Willd. Death Cap, Amanite phalloide, Oronge ciquë vert, Grüner Knollenblätterpilz, Tignosa verdognola, Groene knolamaniet, Gyilkos galóca. Cap 6-15cm across, convex then flattened; variable in color but usually greenish or yellowish with an olivaceous disc and paler margin; also, paler and almost white caps do occur occasionally; smooth, slightly sticky when wet, with faint, radiating fibers often giving it a streaked appearance; occasionally white patches of volval remnants can be seen on cap. Gills free, close, broad; white. Stem 60-140 x 10-20mm, solid, sometimes becoming hollow, tapering slightly toward the top; white, sometimes flushed with cap color; smooth to slightly scaly; the ball-shaped basal bulb is encased in a large, white, lobed, saclike volva. Veil partial veil leaves skirt-like ring hanging near the top of the stem. Flesh firm, thicker on disc; white to pale yellowish green beneath cap cuticle. Odor sickly sweet becoming disagreeable. Spores broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, amyloid, 8-10.5 x 7-9µ. Deposit white. Habitat singly or in small groups on the ground in mixed coniferous and deciduous woods. Quite common in Europe. This is the most deadly fungus known, and despite years of detailed research into the toxins it contains, no antidote exists against their effects on the human body. Poisoning by Amanita phalloides is characterized by a delay of between six and twenty-four hours from the time of ingestion to the onset of symptoms, during which time the cells of the liver and kidneys are attacked (source R. Phillips). \n\nThis deadly poisonous Species is quite common in the Dutch Woods.$

Close up image of the entoloma abortivum (shrimp of the woods) mushroom on a forest ground in Maryland. This is a white irregular shaped lump like foamy looking mushroom.

Lycoperdon molle in close range, pyrenees undergrowth. Berguedà. Barcelona's Pre-pyrenees.

Tiny gulf coast toad (Incilius valliceps) hiding under a green leaf

Old man of the woods (Strobilomyces strobilaceus), a bolete (i.e., mushroom) with distinctive dark pyramidal warts on a light surface, native to North America and Europe. In a Connecticut oak-hickory-maple forest, late summer.

Morel or Verpa bohemica. A delicious edible mushroom that grows in early spring between the stalks of dry grass. Beautiful scene of the spring forest.

Yellow mushroom on roots of leaf trees in late summer sunny morning

a lizards climbs through a bush in search of food

one big brown toadstool mushroom grows in gray sand outdoors in a summer forest

Amanita atkinsoniana, also known as the Atkinson's amanita, is a species of fungus in the family Amanitaceae. The fruit body is white to brownish, with caps up to 12.5 centimetres (5 inches) in diameter

Amanita pantherina (DC. ex Fr.) Secr. Panthercap Amanite panthère, Pantherpilz, Párducgaloca. Cap 6–10cm across, ochraceous brown, covered with small pure-white warty fragments of the veil, finely striate at the margin. Stem 90–130´10–15mm, white with tattered, pendulous ring which is not striate or grooved, the stem base is bulbous and closely wrapped in the white volva which forms a distinct free rim around the base and one or two belt-like rings just above. Flesh white, becoming hollow in the stem. Taste and smell mild. Gills free, crowded white. Spore print white. Spores broadly ovate, nonamyloid, 8–12 x 6.7–7.5µ. Habitat in coniferous or deciduous woodland especially beech. Season summer to autumn. Uncommon. Poisonous – may be deadly. Distribution, America and Europe (source R. Phillips).

Russula violeipes mushroom on forest ground

$Gymnopilus suberis? \nMushrooms in Holly oak forest, in Pre-Pyrenees, Catalonia. Beautiful tiny mushrooms in the ground.\nAutumn typical forest views.$

Head of white uneven shaped Awatakeyadori (Bolete Eater, Hypomyces chrysospermus) mushroom (Wildlife closeup macro photograph)

Assorted fungi that sprouts up everywhere in the Pacific Northwest with the Autumn rain.

Mushroom among the autumn foliage and old leaves in forest, fall landscape

Puffball is a name commonly given to all mushrooms of the Lycoperdaceae family, with more or less spherical bodies.

Broad bodied chaser dragonfly amongst grass.

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