wf found her first fly agaric so i am now boring everyone with it and its your turn silver !!! I am hoping to go back sunday with my better camera i was thrilled to bits finding it..cant stop thinking about it as i love fungi..

Very cool! I've never seen one before!

Those are mad! Just like something you see in a cartoon!

can they be eaten?

No they are poisonous the fly agrics are the drug inducing ones .Very well known in witchcraft ..
ly Agaric was well known to the Koryak tribesmen of Kamchatka in Siberia. They would drink an infusion made from the fungus and become intoxicated. So potent was this concoction that poorer folk would collect the urine passed by revelers. When recycled, its effects were said to be as powerful as they were first time around. For some reason, reindeer seem to be attracted to urine with the scent of the fungus. More than one intoxicated tribesmen relieving himself was reported trampled to death by a crazed ruminant!

Both poisonous and hallucinogenic, Fly Agaric seems to impart a feeling of great strength and stamina—a fact that may provide a clue to the ferocious reputation of the Berserkers, ancient Norse warriors who are said to have consumed the fungus before going into battle.

WF shall be out fungi hunting this weekend if it doesnt rain.

so even though they have these powerful effects, there is also a big chance of dying if they are eaten?