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 ATLien
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 Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious 
#2055476 - 10/29/03 10:06 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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We found some fly-agaric looking mushrooms in Ellijay, except the caps were purple. We also found a whole bunch of huge Death Caps. Here's a picture of the look-a-like, if anyone can identify it, I would love to have my curiosity full-filled.
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: ATLien]
#2055479 - 10/29/03 10:07 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's so tiny!
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: ATLien]
#2055588 - 10/29/03 10:34 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think you've found some Russla. If you eat them they'll either taste bland and make you sick or they'll taste peppery and make you sick 
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: Gumby]
#2055625 - 10/29/03 10:42 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you eat them they'll either taste bland and make you sick or they'll taste peppery and make you sick
that's a pretty good simplification
rusula is not a genus to be experimented with...
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 Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: ATLien]
#2055950 - 10/30/03 12:28 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Funny how you think thats a look-a-like to A. muscaria... 
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: angryshroom]
#2056026 - 10/30/03 12:55 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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it seems taht ATLien could stand to do some research to find out what the kkey features of a mushroom are.
no disrespect to you ATLien, but there are verry important features to note about any mushroom before having a chance at an id.
you can look at a mushroom and think it looks just like a given species, and often be right, but the risk is a great one. identification of a mushroom is a science, and for good reason.
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: ATLien]
#2056432 - 10/30/03 05:37 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Very nice cam... Could probably get the finger prints off of you from those pictures
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: ATLien]
#2056612 - 10/30/03 07:45 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hey, here are a few fly agaric shrooms which look nothing like Russula
species.
This first Amanita has a small baby P. cyanescens growing right in front of it. I photographed that last fall.
and more images of amanita muscaria
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the slug who blissed himself to death with a smile on his face.
He started to eat the shroom, got stoned and as the shroom dried under the lights so did the slug. But I can tell you he was a happy slug. This was photographed in West lake, Oregon.
One of the next image has a sliced shroom to show the interior features of the amanita muscaria
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and one of Amanita muscaria var. formosa
This was photographed in Astoria, Oregon
All other images were photographed in the city of Seattle..
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: mjshroomer]
#2059177 - 10/30/03 09:52 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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White stems, white gills, colored caps with white spots. That's basicly what a Fly Agaric mushroom looks like. Only differences are it's purple instead of red, the white spots are pits instead of warts and it doesn't have a skirt. I'm well aware what we found isn't Fly Agaric, I was just saying that other people might make that mistake, and I was just curious what the mushroom we found was. This was the smallest one we found, it was cute so we took a picture. Some had caps 6 inches wide.
I don't know how anybody in thier right mind could mistake a death cap for a Fly Agaric, but a lot of the guides always feel the need to point out that Death Caps are not Fly Agaric. I was kind of doing the same thing. I apologize if I was encouraging more confusion, next time I'll just ask "What's this?"
I like mushrooms. Not just the ones that make you intoxicated or hallucinate. I just think they're fun to look at. It's really frustrating posting here when everyone assumes I'm an idiot.
From now on remember who I am, because I will be the guy posting a bunch of pictures of random mushrooms for identification every once in a while. I'm not going to eat any of them, I know someone with a closet full of shrooms, if I want to trip, I can get Cubensis from a close trusted friend. If I want to eat Fly Agaric, the shop down the road sells it. I'm just a nature-nerd trying to gain some knowledge of what's in the woods, so get off my back with the preaching already, I've heard it almost every post I've made since I registered here, it's really annoying. Thanks.
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: ATLien]
#2059240 - 10/30/03 10:15 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Only differences are it's purple instead of red, the white spots are pits instead of warts and it doesn't have a skirt.
but the above are huge morphologic differences, with great taxonomic signifigance.
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: canid]
#2059438 - 10/30/03 11:18 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Not everybody speaks myco-nese. Pardon my ignorance. I'm here to learn. I'll keep it simple next time.
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Re: Fly Agaric Look-a-like? Just curious [Re: ATLien]
#2059451 - 10/30/03 11:23 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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my point is that anybody who is going to be hunting any wild mushrooms with the intent to consume any of them needs to learn. i can see that you agree with this in some part, so i think you are on the right track.
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