Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: BUBBA on October 31, 2004, 09:53:46 PM
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These are growing in my front yard are they any good to eat. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/ARRJ/mushroomshot2.jpg
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i doubt it, they look pretty gross!
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wow magic mushrooms cool
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Isn't there a saying which goes something like "the prettier the more deadly"? ???
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Hope not cause I just ate a mushroom burger.
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These are growing in my front yard are they any good to eat.
I dunno, that looks a lot like an Amanita muscaria. In Denmark we call it a red fly mushroom, poisonous but not deadly. :-X
Not sure though.....it being a canadian mushroom and all.... ??? ;D
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try searching it on the net. im sure theres a site where you can identify it
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Amanita muscaria? Is it possible that the agronomist is right for once? (http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Amanita_muscaria.html) :D
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try searching it on the net. im sure theres a site where you can identify it
she is correct. stay away from it.
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Those look like amanitas (muscarias) to me too. These will get you off, but they also might make you very sick, or even kill you. Supposedly people in Siberia eat (or ate) one strain of these to get visions, and it was so popular (and the mushrooms so scarce) that after the shaman ate them, he would pass his pee on to his assistants so they could also get off. gross. I think of these pretty mushrooms about the same way I think of toluache sagrado (Datura, Jimson weed). Both have psychoactive properties, but you probably won't enjoy the trip (from what I hear), and it takes you so close to death that you might end of staying for more than just a short visit. I would be careful even handling those amanitas.
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Get a golf club and let fly. Exploding mushrooms should be fun. :D
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try searching it on the net. im sure theres a site where you can identify it
she is correct. stay away from it.
SHE?!?! im a dude, dude
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try searching it on the net. im sure theres a site where you can identify it
she is correct. stay away from it.
SHE?!?! im a dude, dude
:o
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Running your lawn mower over them will not get rid of them, if you want to get rid you must completely pull out all the roots and a bit of earth surrounding them.
I’m not sure even that would work, since the mushrooms mycelium is probably spread out in most of your garden already. What you see is just a tiny piece of the actual fungus, kind of like an apple on an apple tree. I’d say just remove the mushrooms you see so kids don’t go nibble on them, the mushrooms will probably be back next year or even this year again. If you really wanted to get rid of them I think you’d have to use pesticides, which is not really worth it in my opinion.
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Amanita muscaria? Is it possible that the agronomist is right for once? (http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Amanita_muscaria.html) :D
That shows how much confidence you have in me....... ::) ;D
You are a biologist, you should know your fungi! ;) ;D
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So were you ok after eating the mushroom burger? The only wild mushrooms I've eaten are morels and pine mushrooms.
...you should know your fungi! ;) ;D
Isn't Rod a fun guy? ;)
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I keep thinking about this thread. Somewhere back there someone suggested taking a golf club to those mushrooms. I really wouldn't do that. These are beautiful mushrooms, and if allowed, they will return year after year. Yeah, they are toxic; but they are so gaudy, even the most callow mushroom hunter would hesitate to eat them.
This is not so obviously the case with some other members of the amanita family: faloides and pantera. Neither of these is particularly gaudy (although both are large), and they are more deadly than their cousin, muscaria. If you have muscarias in your area, chances are you also have some panteras and faloides.
Supposedly the muscaria (musca = fly. In Spanish, mosca = fly) got its name from being used for killing flies. You mixed up some of that mushroom with something sweet and left if for the flies. It didn't exactly kill the flies, but it screwed them up so much that they were really easy to swat.
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wow magic mushrooms cool
You've been into something if you think those are the magic ones ;) The guys you want to look for are tiny 1-2" tall. Skinny stems and heads the size of a dime. The heads have a membrane covering the top. This is a hands and knees job and I haven't picked one in about 22 years so don't take my word for it, I'm way out of practice ;D
And there are none in my lawn so keep off ;D
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Nina is right about the identification. These will make you SICK, don't even think about eating them, and if you have small children I would destroy them.
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Perhaps the show is too dated for many here? If you haven't seen it, you should. It's titled Altered States, and is focused upon the halucigenetic qualities of this very 'shroom (and yes, the agronomist was correct with the ID).
Minute amounts of certain parts introduced a very mean trip, the wrong part, or a minute amount too much has extremely uncomfortable results! STAY AWAY!
Nog
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... I haven't picked one in about 22 years so don't take my word for it, I'm way out of practice ;D
i use to pick them before they became illegal. they were abundant at the vancouver airport ::) ...remember rocket shrooms?......( i won't give descriptions, just in case of any kids on net)...... bad news all around.....just like cid. :P
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yikes nina the mycologist :o cool!
some people i once knew used amanita muscara ,yes those very ones as a drug . they would scrap off the white spores and then somehow consume them i can't remember how ,but i wouldn't reccomend doing them if these guys were any indication .
and yes those small ones with the membrains still grow at the airport if i can read my pickers right ;D