hunting the elusive amanitas / Fly agaric

[storm]

Found a bunch of Amanitas around Cimarron, Colorado at about 9,500 feet. They were all over the place in a conifer forest.

[Dogears]

Look for amanitas where there are trees. All amanitas are mycorhizal in nature. The psychoactive amanitas grow in conection with conifers. Wooded areas are a good place to look for them, but they can be found in parks and peoples yards as well, just about anywhere where trees are.

[Ninja Master]

tis the season! i picked 5-8 of these. after 2 i just went for a very large box!



merry xmas!

[jaguarangel]

I have found them under pine trees in the fall and winter. They also like to
grow with boletes under the thick duff of the pine needles. Once you find
where they grow, come back the next year after the rains start and they will
reappear! They also like cold.

[Ninja Master]

ive recently found amanita muscaria in 2 places that i didnt expect
around here. i found them in mixed forest, and i suspect maple to
be what it was growing from. i also found amanita under those
chitty pines. i guess they do grow under pines, but by no means
as robust as the spruce. the thing about pines is that they dont
have low branches the way spruce do. the low branches on spruce
hide about 95% of the amanita muscaria that grow under them.
where the pines are out in the open and amanitas would be very easy to
spot. the mixed forest was kind of funny to find them. they
blended in so well with the fallen leafs that when i went back, i found
the amanita i used as a marker but it took me 3 minutes to find the big
patch. as with the pines, the mixed forest doesnt compare to the
raw poundage the spruce is spitting out.

[Ninja Master]

im adding this second post to put out another point. alot of
people call any conifer (tree that keeps its needles year round) a
"pine" tree. even in the mr smith posting to erowid, he mislabled
spruce cautiously to "what i call a pine tree." im supprised red
capped mushrooms grow under texas. from what others have told me
var formosa is all over the east coast all the way down. var
flavivolvata is the american red cap, and its reported to be in the
pacific north west. i guess its possible for both of the vars to
grow southern? i dont know i only know from first hand
experiance, and i have been very far south.

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[wovotom]

these things are fuckin evil,really about 10gram reduced me to a dribbling wreck & i awoke to a gud 30 seconds of violent sikness,they are a very wierd experience but i did not find it enjoyable. me & my mate were in HORRENDOUS state,i adivise not to take them but if you do try & have sum1 theri who is not on these evil fukkers!!!& dont pick them, their are a range of potentially fatal mushrooms which look undistinguishably the same you can buy them from various shops i ordered mine from wellcoolstuff.com then put them in a soup....i advise against this jus put them in a tea as a soup add to the nuasea

[fugazi32]

Where do I start to hunt for 'em? They usually grow by birch trees, right?

[fugazi32]

Is it still too late (Novemeber) to find them here in the UK?

[wovotom]

DONT HUNT!!!!!if you are inexperienced these are one of the most dangerous shrooms to hunt. Thye contain muscimol that tho takingyou on a wild trip causes stomach cramos & sikness, also the comedown is intenseEdited by: wovotom

[Ninja Master]

hunt for them in coniferus forests, they are much easyer to spot than trying to hunt for something thats the same color as all the mixed leafs on the ground. its freezing and snowing here, its been for a while so i quit lurking this thread on accident. they basicly fruit when the sumer tempratures go back down to 80 degs F from the peek of summer. i think thats 40C or something like that. they will continue to fruit untill first freeze. once thares a freeze the mycelium takes it as a signal to quit fruiting. so it might be good for hunting all winter long in areas that do not freeze??? anyways keep your eyes pealed, and look about 1/2 as fast as you want to.

to wovotom
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[bksabbath]

I found a shroom that i think is an amanita but am not sure. I was looking in the woods and found it between two boulders. It is bright red on top of the cap and underneath the cap is a bright yellow spongy material. I had heard that if you squeezed them and they turned blue they were psychadelic and I squeezed the yellow part and looked back a few minutes later and it was bright blue. Does anyone know what type of mushroom this could be amanita or otherwise.

[Nagognog2]

You have described a poisonous species from the Boletus family. Toss it back and wash your hands before eating or smoking. This is why having such limited information as "if you squeezed them and they turned blue" could make you very sick or kill you.

Read some good books and try to find a mushroom club near you to join.

[jesusfreak666er]

swim feels with the slightest mistake in identification making such a big deal (life or death) it is superior to buy them since they are legal... swim must admit that the feeling of going into the wild and finding a sacred plant (in this case fungus) and taking it is amazing, and feels more rewarding but how bout the feeling if one misidentifies that plant?