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Attention Nature Experts - help ID a mushroom

Snade

Snade

humble AK member
Visiting friends in Reading PA, we were out hiking in the hills near Reading and I found this mushroom (photo below).

It is small, only about 3 inches high. Any idea what kind of mushroom this is?

Just curious, no, I did not eat it, just took the photo and enjoyed its beauty.

Cheers, Snade


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Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly Amanita, is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita.

Leave it alone!
 
I knew I had seen this mushroom. Reading the wikipedia write-up, this mushroom is used frequently as an image in the Super Mario Brothers video game. Too funny.

Snade
 
you have to sit and watch them grow then pick them at the exact right moment in time plus you need to make the antidote from the same mushroom . i don't fancy them but i hear its pretty strong stuff
 
Also used in Allman Brothers Band imagery.

As spart said, eat this and you will have a bad trip that will likely end in death.
 
you can eat 15 and be ok or you can eat 1 and not they aren't predictable in strength unless you know what you are doing .. you can detoxify them by slicing thin and boiling in water then discarding the water
 
Amanita Muscaria and Pantherina are not the deadly type of Amanitas but they aren't 'magic' mushrooms by any stretch, nausea being one of their main effects. Beautiful too look at though. In Vancouver BC I saw fruitings of them that covered a person's entire back yard.

There is only one truly edible Amanita I know of: Amanita Caesarea.

It is well advised to avoid eating all mushrooms that have the cup like structure that the stem of Amanitas grow out of.
 
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I learned about this one a few years back when I visited Alaska one summer and they were all over the place, great flat ones as big as personal pizzas.

I read somewhere that some primitive cultures used to use them as a hallucinogen. But, they are toxic as well, so the shaman would eat them to detoxify and bring out the magic, and the tribe members would drink his pee. Thanks, uh, no thanks.
 
Amanita's like to destroy livers, as do some other species...just sayin'...don't ever eat any wild mushrooms unless you've done some pretty intense learnin', ie; a course on identifying wild mushrooms, taught by someone very knowledgable.

If you're interested, this is a man that published one of the books I use:
http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/
 
Wild mushrooms should never be eaten! There are thousands of varieties and a lot look very much the same. Some can kill very quickly.

I've had quite a few of these though. :smoke:
 
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Snade said:
Visiting friends in Reading PA, we were out hiking in the hills near Reading and I found this mushroom (photo below).
It is small, only about 3 inches high. Any idea what kind of mushroom this is?
Just curious, no, I did not eat it, just took the photo and enjoyed its beauty.
Cheers, Snade
Mushroom_forest_near_Reading_PA.jpg

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It's a pretty little wonder, though, isn't it? While waiting for the image to download, I thought you were going to be showing a fall morel, morels being the spongey looking ones. A retired fungi professor I met said that the fall ones are more likely to upset people's stomachs than the spring ones. In fact, some people are have sensitivies to things in mushroom species that most people find edible. (Let somebody else try it first is a good habit to form if you aren't sure.)
 
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