4rum Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 Found this Tuesday. (Nov. 4th, 2014). It had the most beautiful orange color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyflyfsh Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 What was the geographic location of this, 4rum? I forget where you are. What did the base look like? Is it bulbous? did you dig it up? Could be Amanita muscaria var. guessowii Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natvik Lokness Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 Is this an inside mushroom joke? Amanita muscaria var. guessowii? I have a picture of a very similiar mushroom as the one posted above that does have and the picture shows the bulbuos very well. Problem is I'm struggle figuring out how to post a picture of the proper size? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4rum Posted November 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 I'm in southern West Virginia. This specimen was found in some black pines along the river bottom on New River. I found fresh new ones coming up there today. I'll get pics up when I get them out of the camera. The one pictured did have a pronounced bulb at the base of the stem. I did not dig it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott C Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 If found in West Virginia var. something needs to be apllied as A. muscaria is European species much like B. edulis technically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyflyfsh Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 Scott, Boletus edulis, true edulis is here in the US. I showed you the tree of all the boletes and the CA and MT edulis are right next to each other with the European edulis. My thinking was Var. Guessowii which I posted above, but still need to see more info. It sure is pretty though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4rum Posted November 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 The pics from today are not great. (wrong camera) But is there any thing I can do, document or info I can provide about this little patch of mushrooms? They are not far from home, I can pull, dig or pluck one. I can make better photos and I can do a spore print if it will help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4rum Posted November 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 From today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natvik Lokness Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 Cool mushroom for sure! I wish I could post mine so you could compare. Is there some easy way of doing that? My first try was too big of a file and the forum deleated it - and rightly so. My example of this mushroom has just a bit more white crinkles on it I think. Southern Virginia and Washington State are a long ways apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4rum Posted November 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 natvik Lokness;I use a free image editor (Irfanview) to size all my photos. Then I host them on a free host. From that host, I copy the direct image url. I then paste it here in the message box and it appears as a photo uses very little of the site's bandwidth. There are many free image hosts. I have free accounts with PostImage, Imgur, Blue Melon, Mediafire, Photobucket and I recently opened an account at Flickr. They just recently bumped storage for free accounts to one terabyte. That's a bunch. I also like that Flickr DOES NOT compress my photos. This means better quality images are posted to message boards. I still size them before hosting them. I plan to obtain software and begin shooting, storing RAW image files. They are huge, but the quality is really good. There is a site you may be able to use called eHow. Go there and search 'hosting images' then 'posting images to a message board'. eHow will give you step by step instructions. You can print them then check each step off as you do it. It only takes once or twice and you'll be posting like a pro! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natvik Lokness Posted November 7, 2014 Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question. If I can sneak some time today I'll give it a go. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natvik Lokness Posted November 7, 2014 Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 Still struggling for anyone willing to give advice. I decreased the size of the file and while they looked to be an appropriate size on the "Reply to this topic" page ........when I pushed "Post" I was given the following message; Not allowed to use that file extension on this community". I tried a couple of different file types and either received the quoted message or it did not accept the file at all. Is there a specific file type I should be using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4rum Posted November 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 Hope it helps. If there is private message here, feel free to message me for more detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyflyfsh Posted November 7, 2014 Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 Ok, Now I think this is Amanita muscaria var. persicina check this out and tell me what you think. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita_muscaria_persicina.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4rum Posted November 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2014 The description there certainly matches well, especially about the disheveled veil. The color similarities are a good parallel as well. I think you have the correct ID. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eat-bolete Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 natvik Lokness, the extension you need is probably jpg or bmp, both can be created with simply Paint software that comes with Windows, no need to complicate things. Open your file with Paint and save as .jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChefsWild Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 I've only ever seen a pale, faintly pinkish version of this mushroom in the Raleigh area. Ring and volva were present, just not seen in this photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4rum Posted November 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 Went back for better photos of the Amanita, something ate them all. Just a few crumbles left. Lots of deer tracks so I'm guessing that it was them that ate the mushrooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChefsWild Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 I've seen a fair bit of circumstantial evidence that deer are browsing amanita as well, from hoof tracks to cervid-shaped bites and nibble marks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasso Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Watch this incredible film about reindeer herders in Siberia and their ritual use of A. muscaria. Apparently, the reindeer eat them as well, so it's not surprising that deer here in America also eat them. So I'm not misunderstood, I'm not recommending that anyone try them. http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2443/Pegtymel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddleduck Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Wow! That one is beautiful! Nice find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Maybe the most photogenic of all mushrooms. Here's our local yellowish version, A. muscaria var. guessowii (formerly var. formosa). Here's my nicest one from this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4rum Posted November 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 WOW, looks like it would taste lemony. Bet it don't though. I saw SO many beautiful mushrooms this year. You yellow fellow is one of the prettiest I've ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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