Ruud Streefkerk

The bottom of a Daffodil-amanita. This pale yellow, poisonous mushroom is common in coniferous forests in the dunes of North-Holland and the Wadden Islands. The sheets on the bottom of the cap contain the spores: the germs of a new mushroom. The cap itself protects the spores underneath from rain, in order to prevent them from cleaving together and the stem ensures that they will not fall directly onto the ground below the mushroom, but may be easily dispersed by the wind.