Amanita muscaria var. formosa From Two Locations

[boomer2]

Again, another shot of two specimens from the infamous Birch tree which keeps producing them every three to four days.  Unfortunately, there were also a couple of bigger ones which some jerk kicked with his feet the mushrooms across the sidewalk lawn where they were growing.  This is common for people who come across most large shrooms. Certain idiots love to kick and let the shrooms fly.

From the Birch tree we see two specimens in the lawn.

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And here are two images of Amanita muscaria var. formosa from another location.

A year ago on October 23rd, dshroom of shroomtalk.com came to visit me from New York.

We found several button specimens of red Amanita muscaria and some white  babies of the red variety and a yellow-orange formosa variety.  

Dshroom and I also found the beautiful clusters of P. cyanescens with the green-blue staining caps which we posted pictures of last year.  That cyan patch was raped and pillaged and did not return last fall to produce a third or fourth flush nor did it return this year.

Here are two images of the Amanita form the same location dshroom and I found them last year, only one specimen.  A week w before there where two small white button sized Amanitas poling up through the ground, but they were gone when I found this specimen on November 14.

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boomer2

[dogbane26]

I live in Minnesota and ive found Amanita muscaria growing wild here.  

I understand mushrooms are important in ecology but i dont really care about studying them.

I was with my uncle a month ago and i think we came across a  morel but i could be wrong.  Hey as long as it wasn't a white amanita we cant be to wrong.  I still wouldnt eat a wild mushroom.  

Fungi are still important. Hey i think the kingdom animalia is the least important at least when it comes to humans.  Humans do nothing but destroy habitats. People will say plants do this and that such as the invasive ones but from what ive seen humans do alot worse.

[boomer2]

Dogbane 26 suggested that

Humans do nothing but destroy habitats.

This only applies to wood chip mulch garden beds of P. cyans, P. azurescens, P. baeocystis, P. stuntzii and other species found in man-made landscaped mulched areas by ripping the shrooms from their symbiosis with surrounding plant life.

However, I would like to point out that in pasture lands, liberty cap fields and lawn patches are not destroyed by human picking and lifting such caps from the roots of wild grasses.

The same applies to blue ringers (P. stuntzii and P. fimetaria) or  P. baeocystis which grow in lawns.

mjshroomer1