Amelia's photos with the keyword: Close up

These blackberry flowers were photographed on the same day as the puff ball fungus'

Famous, enchanting and highly toxic. Fly agaric is the home of fairies and magical creatures and a lover of birch woodland, where it helps trees by transferring nutrients into their roots, but if eaten can cause hallucinations and psychotic reactions and even death.

A misty morning, and the gorse bushes are covered in webs. Many of these webs may belong to the Autumn Webworm Hyphantria cunea. The species is native to America but has been introduced to Europe where it can be frequent in places. The larvae feed in communal webs (hence the name 'Webworm')

Stem White/off white/cream, often very slightly mottled grey to brown with a kind of snakeskin effect. Coming from a bulb a little like the amanitas, strong and up to 30 cm almost always with the skirt still on nearly 2/3 of the way up the stem. Hollow on cutting and often very fibrous.

Macro Mondays - low key. The blue light came from the computer screen, and the red is from the object, a glass sphere with 'bubbles' inside it. Hand held camera for 0.3 seconds with my elbows on my desk.