Hard to tell if that's a panther or a blusher at this stage! Do you have any pro tips? Besides the eventual red discoloration of the latter, of course…
Nice touch with the ladybird (ladybug?) larva in the pic, btw!
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Nice touch with the ladybird (ladybug?) larva in the pic, btw!
Now I think you might be correct and it is maybe Amanita amerirubescens(blusher)…not sure I’m not all that up on what looks like panthers here other than gemmata which I think is in the panther grouping? Gemmata is the only yellow amanita I ever picked and used but I have almost no experience with it vs muscaria.
From my experience the A. pantherina tend to always be on the smaller side compared to blushers which can be as big as A. muscaria.
I would say the blushing is the best way to determine them. Sometimes blusher will be reddish before the cap is fully open.
With pantherina the cap will be fully open and the mushroom nicely formed with no blushing.
I can't remember the aromas of each mushroom as I have not been focused on either of them for quite some time now.
I would say the blushing is the best way to determine them. Sometimes blusher will be reddish before the cap is fully open.
With pantherina the cap will be fully open and the mushroom nicely formed with no blushing.
I can't remember the aromas of each mushroom as I have not been focused on either of them for quite some time now.
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Okay so what I find as “gemmata” is technically Amanita pantherinoides and hopefully I can find some for photos …what I am finding as muscaria is Amanita muscaria var. flavivolvata…
Anyway I will take photos next week of those blushers…last yr they were dinner plate size at that location. I’ve always left them.
I'd personally be wary of picking anything besides muscaria and rubescens, tbh. The consequences of ID error would be too terrible! I'm not confident that there aren't any amatoxin-producing yellow-brown species with velar remnant spots on their caps - and what do people think of the supposed higher potency/toxicity of A. pantherina?
In general A. gemmata will be harder to properly identify and I have found A. pantherina to be much more straightforward to identify.
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I'm gonna brew most of these into a tea concentrate and freeze them in Boost shake bottles. Handy for 50mL dosing and preserving the goods.
I haven't yet tried the A. pantherina tincture, but the pantherina grape gummies are good.
The cookie jar gummies are my weednitas, each with 3.5mg of pure Muscimol, but they are also loaded with THC, so I do them once per week.
I sent some of the weednita gummies to a friend of mine who's trying to phase off of functional alcoholism.
I haven't yet tried the A. pantherina tincture, but the pantherina grape gummies are good.
The cookie jar gummies are my weednitas, each with 3.5mg of pure Muscimol, but they are also loaded with THC, so I do them once per week.
I sent some of the weednita gummies to a friend of mine who's trying to phase off of functional alcoholism.
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very much so
Just be sure to get the whole of the stem all the way out the ground for at least one specimen, to be able to examine the morphology of the voival bulge at the base. This can be quite important - refer to an amanita field key to find out exactly why, but some species will have bag-like veil remnants there, while others will have a collar-like ridge around the 'shoulder' of the volva.
I think pantherinoides…
That one's not on my personal (European) radar, just for the record, so I'll defer to those with greater expertise on this.
From what I see it seems to be Amanita pantherina.
We don’t have them here. Our “panthers” are Pantherinoides afaik…but I’ve not paid much attention to amanita id besides the red ones so I’m def not an expert.
I see. If I saw that mushroom in the forest here, I would say it's pantherina. Researching the bulb below might show some subtle differences, not sure.
These are enormous. They never grow that big here 
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Wow, those are big. I think the only ones I've been face to face with have been the yellow-orange varieties formosa or guessowii.
Never had a fresh blood-red specimen in my hands.
Never had a fresh blood-red specimen in my hands.
Went for a stroll the other day myself…
