Red Mushroom, White Spots, found on my walk through the woods
I love mushrooms. As an alternative to cheese (one of my other loved foods), I love mushroom sandwiches too. Bread is of course my other loved food. Yes, I'm a cheese sandwhich junkie first, mushroom sandwich junkie second.
Imagine my joy when walking through the woods to find this beauty. I've heard it said that most mushrooms in the UK are OK to eat... fortunately I don't think 'most' is anywhere near a good enough probability ratio to experiment with. I did spend 10 minutes on my PDA accessing the internet to identify it but gave up and carried on walking. Having now looked up what this mushroom is, it's an Amanita Muscaria and the website of "Rogers Mushrooms" give it an edibility rating of "Deadly".
Perhaps the bright red cap with white spiky bits on top of the red are natures way of telling me "Red is danger, spiky bits mean danger too so you really don't want to eat me Steve!", that and I thought it looked like a friendly cartoon mushroom far to good to eat, happily growing in tree dappled sunshine.
Where did you find that mushroom and the state. Please send info!!!!
I was reading about these the other day on the internet on my moms phone and it reads these mushrooms can cause nausea or some kind of intoxication. What does that mean? It says they're safe to eat but doesn't give directions on how to fix them to be ready to eat? Do you have any answers on that one?
i spotted those too !!!!!!! a whole colony of them!
Steve,
The Amanita Muscaria is at the center of religious and ancient art from the beginning of history. It can be deadly, but if dried and prepared properly can open your eyes to a reality (not this one)you never knew existed. There is a rather long but informative video by two scientists on this subject I watched with astonishment as I am also a scientist, but a problem with my computer caused me to lose it. You'll find it as I did on the internet. Eye-opener is an understatement. Just thought I should be fair and let you know. The rest is up to you.
Sorry for the slow publishing folks,
@ed: in woodland south of Dunkirk, near Canterbury, Kent, UK. Google Map here
@Terra & @Michael, I've no plans to try eating any
or you could come to australia and they grow where ever you walk lol
I just looked out my bedroom window and saw this mushroom all by itself on the front lawn. It's good to know it's poisonous.
I have never seen it before but Googling red mushroom white spots came up on Google Suggest.
Also, I am in Australia as well and it has just rained.
I have also Found this mushroom out Side of our construction worksite in AK
I too see these mushrooms every day. On Skipwith Common in North Yorkshire (between York and Selby.) I live on the road leading to the common. There are quite a few patches of them.
I just went camping at the Wowo site near Tunbridge Wells and saw loads of these - some that look just that picture and some with a more "umbrella" top. Amazing!
just to let you know the are also happily growing in a park in vancouver bc canada.looks like a bit of a magical city around the bottom of a silver birch tree.they are edible(i think) if boiled first,but how good va=can a boiled mushroom tatse like.regards
I see this mushroom in Washington state on the upper left coast. I see them when walking the dogs in the Hood Canal area
Hello, My husband and I were out walking yesterday, it's a walk we take everyday and we spotted the Red mushroom with white spots, so i got on the computer and identified it. We live in Veneta, Oregon it is 20 miles east of Eugene, Oregon and 200 miles south of Portland Oregon.. On our walk tomorrow i am going to take a picture of it. I have never seen one like it around here. There are 2 of them but one is especially beautiful.. Nice to know they are poison. Just wanted to let you know.
Sincerly, Lou Le Blanc...
those types of mushrooms if prepared properly can lead to extraordinary hallucinations like you are lost in time in a new diminsion
Oddly enough snails and slugs love this mushroom. Maybe that's their way of not being eaten by birds?
this is a fly argaric mushroom, very common in woodland areas across the UK, very hallucinagenic.
I just went to visit a friend as she's moved house and low and behold right outside her front door is a small park area with a kids play area and I counted about 7 different types of mushrooms growing around 1 single tree and this was one of them!
She's going to report it to the Local Council 1st thing Monday.
my dad just seen one of these!! and 3 elves apparently, lol
We have them growing in our garden, lots of them in Heswall, Wirral. They are so pretty that I mow around them
Today, I saw this same type of mushroom while I'm walking at first I though it was a red rubber spiky ball but when i go near i notice it is mushroom it is beautiful and suddenly I remember the Gnomeo and Juliet Movie.. LOL So i took some pictures of it then i try to find out the name, if it is poisonous etc. and thanks to you my question already got an answer... ^____^
Saw 2 of these beautifull fungi at the side of the caravan we were staying in at Park Dean site near Poole ! very large one and a much smaller one, first time i ever saw them
I have found a load of these red mushrooms but always thought that they didn't exist I live in dudley in the west midlands in a place called Brockmoor. I must admit they are beatifull and at first thought they were plastic until I got close and could see that one had been partly eaten buy what it looks like a bird has been pecking it away
Just found tons of these in tigard Oregon want to know how to prepare them to eat
Hi Chris
Thanks for commenting.
The mushroom web site I found said they were deadly, so I imagine the best way to prepare them is to:
1) Put the mushrooms you've collected in bin
2) Wash hands
3) Order a mushroom pizza
4) Enjoy living another day
;-)