Weird looking Mushroom

[Mayfly]

Anyone ever see one of these before? Big E filmed it last year and sent it to me....

[Big E]

Add this one to the list too. We found a few of these hunting morels with Deadeye and Dakids.

[jena2010]

Did you pick them or what  

[Fawkinnae]

Anyone ever see one of these before? Big E filmed it last year and sent it to me....

This one is an amanita I believe - not sure if I spelled it right. Amanita muscaria?

[Mayfly]

How do you know that? And what are they good for? Eating?

[Big E]

I didn't pick either of these. The one I video taped while deer hunting and the black one we found while looking for morels.

[dakids]

I found this in Wikipedia.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
  edibility: poisonous or psychoactive
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric (pronounced /ˈæɡərɪk/) or fly Amanita (pronounced /ˌæməˈnaɪtə/), is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The quintessential toadstool, it is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually deep red mushroom, one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture. Several subspecies, with differing cap colour have been recognised to date, including the brown regalis (considered a separate species), the yellow-orange flavivolata, guessowii, and formosa, and the pinkish persicina. Genetic studies published in 2006 and 2008 show several sharply delineated clades which may represent separate species.

Although generally considered poisonous, deaths are extremely rare, and it has been consumed as a food in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America after parboiling in water. However, Amanita muscaria is now primarily famed for its hallucinogenic properties, with its main psychoactive constituent being the compound muscimol. It was used as an intoxicant and entheogen by the peoples of Siberia and has a religious significance in these cultures. There has been much speculation on traditional use of this mushroom as an intoxicant in places other than Siberia; however, such traditions are far less well-documented. The American banker and amateur ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson proposed the fly agaric was in fact the Soma talked about in the ancient Rig Veda texts of India; since its introduction in 1968, this theory has gained both detractors and followers in the anthropological literature.[1]

[dakids]

I think the black one is Black Tulip or Devil's Urn, Urnula craterium.  From what I read it is edible but not prefered because of all of the morels at this timer of the year.

[HD]

So, the speckled one....is a schroom "like, totally far out" kinda schroom. 

[corny13]

Historically the Viking warriors would eat Amanita muscaria mushrooms before battle!!!

[Fawkinnae]

DaKids crushed it. Yup - takes you for a little ride. I have not sampled it by the way.

[HD]

DaKids crushed it. Yup - takes you for a little ride. I have not sampled it by the way.

  .... are you sure? Maybe someone slipped you some in your Fawkinnae ale? 

[dakids]

DaKids crushed it. Yup - takes you for a little ride. I have not sampled it by the way.

Don't crush them.  Slice them thin and then garnish the special brownies with them.

They are a real croud pleaser    

[Go Big Red!]

MMMMMMMMMMMM brownies....  Does anyone else see the little green man.....

[dakids]

He's not green. He is wearing purple pants with a pink and orange shirt.  SWEEEEET

[thunderpout]

They make great soup..... anyone ever seen the movie altered states?