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