Need help, are these Fly Agarics?/Amanita muscaria?

GroErr said:

Good call to throw those out, the one's in the second pic are not. Besides not having the white spots on them, the stalks on the amanita's are layered, like scales almost. The first is amanita muscaria formosa, they come in the red and yellow form. If you pick them early in the summer they are quite strong and you don't need anymore than 2-3g dry. If you get them in the late summer/early fall that's when you'll find more of them but they're not as strong. Those you need about 5g dry to get a good stone. You can smoke them to get a feel for what they're like but they taste like shit, mix them with some hash or something to cut the taste. I lived on a large property for years that had them growing naturally and would collect pounds of them every season, rarely did them but some of my friends liked them so I collected and usually traded them for hash or oil. I made the mistake of taking about 5g of the early crop one's one time and was stoned out of my mind for 12 hours, went into a fog for a few hours where all I could see was like tunnel vision, powerful shit if you're not careful with the dosage.

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WHODAT@THADOR said:

TRASH @GroErr

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GroErr said:

I guess I was imagining things, as well as any of the other folks who ate them, whatever, just posting what I experienced with them over many years of collecting them. In comparison to other types these require a higher dosage, I tried different dosages over time to find why worked.

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WHODAT@THADOR said:

Most people who eat them say they are trash...Along with the alkaloid's contained...SURE...there are a few who get down on em....But they are still trash

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GroErr said:

I'm not a mushroom connoisseur, just posting what I experienced with that variety as I lived there for 18 years so had quite a bit of time to experiment with them. Most of the time they were a mild/pleasurable high for a few hours but the early summer one's were deadly, not in a sick deadly way, they were potent to the point that one time scared the shit out of me. In comparison to some others I had taken over the years, the dosage for these seemed to require higher dosage so if someone took a couple of grams they wouldn't feel much if anything. But there were so many and free I didn't care. I still have a bag of them in the freezer which are probably crap by now. A few sample pics, best pics from the 2008 season archives, I have hundreds of them. They're one of the coolest looking imo.
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That property had the most variety of mushrooms I've ever seen, some were just bizarre shapes, sizes and colours... The first one below was more like a fungus and you could only see/capture it in the morning sun, then they shrunk down to almost nothing for the rest of the day, pretty cool...
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Cheers

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