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Amanita muscaria var. formosa
(From Wikipedia) Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric ( /ˈæɡərɪk/) or fly amanita ( /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 flavivolvata, guessowii, formosa, and the pinkish persicina. Genetic studies published in 2006 and 2008 show several sharply delineated clades that may represent separate species.
They are poisonous.
Thank you very much for your help Brendan. I would never eat something I do not know, especially mushrooms, but I am glad that I know for sure that I should never even think about eating these! They are pretty and smells good also. It is too bad that we cannot eat them....
I would never recommend eating a mushroom, particularly an Amanita sp., that was identified over the internet, however.
They are poisonous and somewhat psychoactive, usually in an unpleasant way. Some sources suggest they are edible when boiled in several changes of water. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_mu...
Spotted on Sep 29, 2012
Submitted on Sep 29, 2012
