I have a few of these shrooms growing in my garden, whats the best way to prepare them ? because i've heard there pretty poisonous if you just pick them and eat them.
Hmm sorry to jack your post but... What color variations can you find in fly agaric? i found some yellowish very simillar looking mushrooms with white warts. Just wondering.
Amanita Muscaria caps can range from yellowish-orange to deep red, all with white warts present and a bulbous base with a veil ring. FIRST, make positively sure it is A. Muscaria. Compare the mushrooms with as many pictures and descriptions as you can on the internet. As for preparing them, you need to eat them dry, NOT wet. Put them on a sheet of cookie-paper in a pan into the oven, set at around 150-200F but no more than 200 degrees. Let them dry out completely until they crumble when pinched. If you eat A. Muscaria wet, expect to keep a garbage can nearby for a few hours.
since A. Muscaria can be really dodgy, unless you REALLY, REALLY know what you are doing, I'd just find a place online that sells them and buy them ... that way you know they have been dried properly and are for sure the real thing. just my humble opinion though. better to be safe than sorry.
Some of the deadliest mushrooms are in the same genus as amanitas, so if you're dead set on eating the one in your backyard make absolutley sure its an amanita muscaria. Picking and eating a genuine amanita muscaria is no more dangerous than eating one dried. What is dangerous is mis-identifying the mushroom and eating a poisonous mushroom that you thought was an amanita. They're pretty cheap to buy off the net, and you know what you're eating. The trip is also quite different from psilocybin shrooms, read up on them before you do it so the tremors don't surprise you and freak you out
The fly agaric in my back garden is 99.9% the genuine article according to a freind of mine who is in the know about fungi, how ever some of you guys say that some of the most deadly mushrooms are in the same family as the fly agaric and as i said before my freind is 99.9% sure it's safe, however that leaves 0.01% risk that it's deadly so it's in the bin now. Thanks for sharing your info.
These are mine. Anyone know if theyre fly agaric? The have warts but im kinda worried about whether or not theyre poisonous. I believe i found out what kind they are. Heres a link. http://pluto.njcc.com/~ret/amanita/species/muscgues.html I dont believe these are deadly because they contain the same toxins as fly argaric.
i know nothing about amanita, but those in your pic have less texture on the tops than in the pics from the link you said
Yeah. I originally wrote that mine have barely visible white warts that are the same texture as the ones on the red shroom. you just have to look closely. It was under a tree and it had rained a few days earlier. Pigment and warts come off in water.
OctopusNightstand - those do not look like A. Muscaria to me, although from Wikipedia they could pass for being A. Muscaria var. Americana. The only thing that makes me unsure is the base of the stem. Most A. Muscarias have a very bulbous and scaley tip.
I guess i may just throw them out. Just because im not 100% sure and im not up for a trip to the hospital this weekend.
I found like 2 lbs amanita americanas yesterday in some devolopment by my friends house. I started drying half and gave the other half to a freind. It only took 3/4 a 4 inch cap to make colors bleed and the tiled white ceiling a colored puzzle.
I wouldn't suggest preparing them at all. Also, there are fly agaric mushrooms that are yellow and orange, those are where I live (in Canada). These mushrooms are potentially toxic. Maybe you should get an extract of them or amarita muscaria.
i suppose you may have missed the whole post i made. they were tested, they work, all amanita muscaria are potentially toxic unless prepared properly. (these are the orange ones)
