Need Help identifying fungi in sheltered grassland

[dixiedoo2]

Hi all
I am new to this forum so please forgive any mistakes i make.
I hope somone could tell me or point me in the correct direction as to what type of fungi this is. All pictures are of same fungi.

I found this fungi at the end of november on a dry cool morning. It was the only one present, i found it in sheltered grassland. It is a small area of grassland surrounded by mix forest or birch, beech and oak. But mainly silver birch. No domestic cattle graze area but fallow deer do.
It had no smell but i did not want to damaged it to see if smelled as only one and stunning fungi. bright orange with deep red centre.
I hope this is enough info to identifying it.
take care all
and thanks for looking

[flaxton]

dixiedoo
Welcome to the forum.
You have a perfect example of a "freshly washed" Amanita muscaria - the Fly Agaric. All the photos you see in the books will show this with its characteristic white patches on the cap but as your photos show they can be washed off.

Mal

[dixiedoo2]

Thats so cool, thanks.
there are plenty of those round the rest of the woodland. I was unaware the white bits washed away. Its a stunning fungi with the bits washed away.
thanks very much for help.

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by dixiedoo2

Thats so cool, thanks.
there are plenty of those round the rest of the woodland. I was unaware the white bits washed away. Its a stunning fungi with the bits washed away.
thanks very much for help.

For years, scientists could not understand why some Fly Agarics had no white spots.
The mystery was finally solved in 1869 when Dr Ernst Winklepicker observed a little Elf wandering through the woods with one of these litter-picker sticks.

Neil.

[mollisia]

Yepp, that's true - and since that time people are wondering: What does the elfs do with the white patches? May be they have a secret guidance for eternal life? May be we should ..... - no, we shall not of course



Andreas

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Yepp, that's true - and since that time people are wondering: What does the elfs do with the white patches?
Andreas

They've been throwing them from the sky and littering them around most of the UK just recently.