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Identifying Poisonous Mushrooms in the Woodlands

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Forager Fraser Simpson explains the way to identify the ammonite mushrooms - namely the most deadly series in the UK

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Amanita muscaria is not poisonous

lee cocum

July 20, 2015

The Cecil kept stopping and starting just frustrating to even watch

Edith Bailey

September 27, 2015

It might make things on the toilet so violent that you'll wish you were dead.

Kaiser Frost

October 2, 2015

I was about to eat one of those red mushrooms, I thought it was a magic mushroom good thing you told me it was deadly, I'm going to step on it now

LUNA

October 17, 2015

+Marijuana Man No. This guy has it all wrong. Amanita muscaria is a hallucinogen, but is not "magic". Muscimol is completely different from psilocybin. This is another one of those videos that spreads false information about amanita muscaria being deadly. There's only been about one or two deaths recorded. Muscimol and psilocybin are not party drugs, and if you're looking for a quick and free high, leave the mushrooms be.

lol pls

October 21, 2015

I have always been interesting about mushrooms.

Scarlet brodway

November 23, 2015

+lol pls Amanita muscaria is poisonous, as well as the psilocybin mushrooms. To the same extent that alcohol is poisonous… you take to much you die. The Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) is much more toxic than the Psilocybe genus of mushrooms (and related genera). It contains the psychoactive compounds ibotenic acid and muscimol, which are both much more toxic than psilocybin. Yet they actually sell the fly agaric dried at some head shops, completely legal, even though it'll kill you much more readily than the species of the psilocybe genus. There's only been two cases that I know of people dying from psilocybin mushroom poisoning, one was a young child, and the other was someone who had consumed a copious amount of a certain species (Psilocybe semilanceata) that contains high levels of baeocystin (4-phosphoryloxy-N-methyltryptamin) and norbaeocystin (4-phosphoryloxy-N-tryptamin) compared to other species of the Psilocybe genus. The ones that contain higher levels of those chemicals do seem to be correlated to more negative physiological responses, such as nausea, abdominal pains, enuresis, hyperreflexia, violent or on the opposite, sleepy euphoria and unrestness, pain in the
lower limbs, parasthesia, mydriase, tachychardia and hypertension, and even temporary (few seconds to a few hours) paralysis. Anyways adverse physical side effects from the psilocybin mushrooms are really rare and almost only manifest when large doses are taken (as far as I know, which is pretty short).
sources and good reads:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscimol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibotenic_acid
http://www.shroomery.org/6301/Fatal-Poisoning-After-a-Group-of-People-Voluntarily-Consumed-Hallucinogenic-Mushrooms
https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_info4.shtml

PS the shroomery community is a great resource as well as erowid.

Cameron Loren

December 14, 2015

+Marijuana Man It's said that the fly agaric is less "psychedelic" and more intoxicating, and also people have severe physical effects from it much more often than negative physical effects from psilocybin mushies. I don't know though, I've never tried the fly agarics, I've never been curious until I saw a documentary about them, now I am slightly curious in it.

Cameron Loren

December 14, 2015

I've had A. Muscaria. Not for recreational use, only shamanic. 

lol pls

December 14, 2015

Right.. Though I would say the same for Psilocybin containing mushrooms… Doesn't stop us dingus humans from trying lol.

Cameron Loren

December 16, 2015