Nice fungi. Where did you amanita muscaria? Are you going to try it? I never have. I don't think I will either. Anymore psychedelics and I'm going to disappear into the ethers.
meaning...where did you 'find' the amanita muscaria...
we found the amanita while hiking in the olympic mtns at about 6500 ft last fall. the shaggy manes were in our yard, lucky me. i ate them
Hmm... fungus looks tasty.
Spike,
Founder of The Honest Outlaw's Organization
Fungi Friday, now that is tastier than the regular house-pet kind 'o bloggin'.
Do you know if we have the same fungi here on the east coast as y'all?
cervantes--my books are all about west coast 'shrooms. i know amanitas grow in europe and lapland so i expect they grow somewhere on the east coast. i googled coprinus comatus and got an authoritative looking page saying it has a worldwide range.
There's a very nice red topped mushroom we used to pick and cook in the woods of vermont, Rossela or some such name, looks a bit like your fly agaric, but that one looks frighteningly white down below. I've had people insist that the Rossela is poisonous, but we never had any trouble from it, it had a very pleasing peppery flavor. Something about the stalks being webbed or wispy like those shown here also suggests danger it seems to me.
Wild mushrooms, such a pleasure when you can find them and trust them. I've never dared pick any on my own. Good to know one's limits. Fortunately I have a few friends who are up on these things.
And will it be fungi & shrooms on Fridays? Being such emphemeral beings, it's a great way to collect them. Great idea!
I was told that pyracantha berries were poisonous when I was a child. Then a few months ago I found recipes for pyracantha jelly.
http://aggie-
horticulture.tamu.e...anthajelly.html
geez. What else ? Everything I
know is wrong.
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