Good and Bad News for mushroom pickers

http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/deadliest-mushroom-in-the-world-is-spreading-140210.htm

That interesting thanks for sharing kuya.

check these flowers out….

those aminita are serious stuff and only so called experts mess with them....I dont pick anything in those families and even  simple agaricus mushrooms are too close ... you could on accident find a death cap bud posing in group of agaricus caps and in a simple mistake ad it to your harvest...bye bye ....

folks from other countries picking in the u.s  and experts are it's number one victims

Cool pix Alex!

One reason It is good mushrooms are not my favorite thing to eat.

Those are pretty flowers. Smell like fish, though. 

The photo in the article isn't even a death cap mushroom.  Very misleading by that photo...

The photo in the article isn't even a death cap mushroom.  Very misleading by that photo...

Comes in different killing forms.   That is just one type.  It would have killed you.

The photo in the article isn't even a death cap mushroom.  Very misleading by that photo...

Isn't it? I wasn't sure, I guess that's the point.

My philosophy is the same as trianglelaguna - gills kill!

That is some twisted shit at six AM! I almost didn't notice it...

Thanks for sharing.

  Umm I had some 'shroom tea once that made me see flowers in exactly that way.

 I was walking on a trail in the redwoods a couple years ago and I noticed that every time I saw a specific largish, white mushroom, it had been smashed by someone. It was a white, skirted, gilled mushroom, around 5-6 inches tall. I wondered if it was deliberate by a ranger because of toxicity.

good observation...kids love to kick em over...even big kids cant resist....even experienced pickers..I'm guilty- will touch-disturb-flip over a mushroom that they know will not be edible or such...sometimes this is just part of learning and developing more reference points from things i've read and studied and now can touch and see first hand...but just like fisherman tend to do...as folks get more experience they tend to disturb less stuff and leave things not needed ,untouched
I wonder if those were crunched to stop people from trying to eat em....

I was walking on a trail in the redwoods a couple years ago and I noticed that every time I saw a specific largish, white mushroom, it had been smashed by someone. It was a white, skirted, gilled mushroom, around 5-6 inches tall. I wondered if it was deliberate by a ranger because of toxicity.

Sounds like Destroying Angel - all white? Very very nasty