Red readily recognized
These hard to miss beauties are popping up everywhere in the rainy fall season of the British Columbia’s southern coast. Pretty, but will give you much gastrointestinal pains if consumed without proper preparation. Though this mushroom is considered poisonous, it has been consumed for it’s psychoactive properties or for food in some places of the world.
Amanita muscaria is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the southern hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species.
Similar species: Agaricales
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Uploaded Oct 26, 2020. Captured Oct 13, 2020 15:57 in 3450 E 29th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R 1W7, Canada.
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