Amanita muscaria "Fly Agaric" Mushroom

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:00 pm

Found this classic shot on my walk to work today. Not much up on mushroom ID but it is not the common Red toadstool.
Amanita muscaria Var. americana or guessowii Maybe?

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:11 am

Think it may be this one Doug. See:-

http://gallery.cs.umb.edu/gallery/album150

Scroll down to the bottom for the older expanded caps.

DaveW

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:23 am

Hi Dave, very nice link, thank you. I took a look at another shot of the mushrooms and it does show some orange in the center, so it very well could be var. formosa. I didn`t run into that link when I was looking for an ID

Thanks again.

Gordon C. Snelling · Post by **Gordon C. Snelling** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:38 am

I've always liked shrooms, but they are usually in areas which make getting the shot tough, yours are no exception. Good job.