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watch out for those death caps
    #7401860 - 09/12/07 06:47 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)



crazy Amanitas


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: Coaster]
    #7401890 - 09/12/07 06:53 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Yikes.

Are there any choice mushrooms that death caps resemble?


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: Coaster]
    #7401906 - 09/12/07 06:57 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Awesome picture


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: Acaterpillar]
    #7401926 - 09/12/07 07:01 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I seem to recall some news of recent Japanese immigrants in the PNW mistaking poisonous amanitas for matsutakes years ago.

Coulda been urban legend, too.


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: implee]
    #7401934 - 09/12/07 07:03 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

there are a few that are close in the Lepiotas, IIRC.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCELLANEOUS/leucoqag.htm

And I think Pluteus has some that look similar, but the pink sporeprint would give them away.


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: PinheadX]
    #7401981 - 09/12/07 07:12 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

it's not an urban legend... there have been poisionings of mostly asians who mistake the Amanita virosa for the paddy straw mushroom. They don't have A. virosa in their region, so they don't know to watch out for an all white mushrooms.


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: PinheadX]
    #7402356 - 09/12/07 08:28 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

few of those popped up in my yard about a month ago, now i got muscaria in the same spot:thumbup:


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: Phish_Dude]
    #7402395 - 09/12/07 08:37 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

i love shrooms thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: Coaster]
    #7402540 - 09/12/07 09:01 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

That picture is 100% awesome.


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: PinheadX]
    #7402829 - 09/12/07 10:11 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

In this case (the specimens in the photo) and in the cases I know of from California the mushrooms were A. phalloides, an equally deadly mushroom that is also easy for some people to mistake for a Volvariella. A spore print would immediately show the difference, but beginners don't do spore prints very often or understand how important they are in identification.

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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: ToxicMan]
    #7402876 - 09/12/07 10:21 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

whoa that picture of a mantis religiosa in the leaves of a mimosa pudica plant sensitive plant se how some of the leaves are begining to curl back when that mantis paseed, did you took this picture


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: cactu]
    #7402900 - 09/12/07 10:26 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

no theyre all from wikipedia


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: Coaster]
    #7403698 - 09/13/07 03:20 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

> Are there any choice mushrooms that death caps resemble?

I like to eat Amanita lanei. But those have hollow stems, a different smell, and several other differences.

Index Fungorum says Amanita is in the Plutaceae, but Wikipedia says its in the Amanitaceae. Which is correct?


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Re: watch out for those death caps [Re: ToxicMan]
    #7403835 - 09/13/07 05:37 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

oh, I didn't check my sources on that one... May have been phalloides that I was thinking about.

I have found A. phalloides in my back yard at my previous residence. They can vary quite a bit in appearance with regard to cap color. Mine were a silvery color with a greenish tinge.


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If you want to find psilocybin in species that are not yet known to be psychoactive, you should do chemical tests. That way you won't get sick and die all the time.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
- Philip K. Dick


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