[Red Badger]

Ping!.....................

[gundog]

Doesn’t look like anything I forage.

I wonder if these are “newcomers” being poisoned.

[Magnum44]

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I have to patrol around the house when they are season. My "chow hounds" will put anything in
their mouths. In Appalachia death cap season is usually late August through early October. They
start out egg-like. And they all have a very very pale lightish green tinge, almost imperceptible. The gills are white.

I can happily live without eating wild mushrooms of any stripe.

[Deaf Smith]

Reminds me of the Clint Eastwood movie The Beguiled.

[ViLaLuz]

I’m an expert mushroom forager but even then, if I’m not 1,000% sure I pass. When it comes to Destroying Angel I’ll even pass up the safe ones (White Dapperling) because they look very close to Destroying Angel. Even one Destroying Angel can kill so it’s just not worth the risk.

I mainly stick to about a dozen edibles that are safe and visit well established patches every year. Others see me foraging and I always warn them that there are many poisonous mushrooms in the area so don’t forage without an expert!

The hippies I see looking for hallucinogenic shrooms, they always have my concern. I see the magic mushrooms often but don’t let them know where.

[MinorityRepublican]

[Bullish]

Anyone dumb enough to eat a death cap mushroom...

[ViLaLuz]

Be careful out there!

Death Cap/ Destroying Angel
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita_bisporigera.html

[ViLaLuz]

“...If someone ingests a Destroying Angel and doesn’t receive prompt treatment, there’s a 50 percent chance they’ll be dead within a week. If they are lucky, they might just lose a kidney or experience liver failure. ...”

Mycology Professor Thwarts Destroying Angel
https://www2.cortland.edu/news/mycology-professor-thwarts-destroying-angel

[moose07]

[1066AD]

I just smell mushrooms, never had a bad one yet !

[TigersEye]

One of the two most deadly mushrooms in the world. Neither is really hard to identify.

Milk Thistle extract is the most effective treatment but you need to take it soon after ingesting the shrooms and you probably ought to be under a doctor’s care as well.

[Savage Beast]

Chanterelles? Morels?

[ViLaLuz]

See also Amanita Phalloides, could look like Paddy Straw.
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita_phalloides.html