Amanitas mysteriously growing in back yard

Hey i was outside to let my dog go to the bathroom and i saw two of these red mushrooms with white spots on them. I went to erowid and saw these as amanitas. what do they do? has anyone ever heard of this. This picture, obviously, was not taken in my back yard but it looks just like this but without a ton of white spots (i'd say it had 10 all around it.)

 

Microscope + compare spores to online ones. That's the only foolproof way.

 

then it aint a amanitas,, it would have the spots..

id reccomend you go to the book store and get the audobaun societies feild guide to shroons,,, also id reccomend never eating anything till it was positiveley idenified..

 

Watch out with amanitas if your not sure. If theyre not red with white dots theire probably poisinous.
The times i do fly agarics (amanita muscarias) i only pick 'em if im completely sure. you, know when see them you just think to yourself: "those are some fly agarics!"

 

be careful man, make sure that you are 100% sure its amanita muscaria before you ingest it (if you planned to), some amanita's are extremly poisonous

 

amanitas count for something like 90% of all mushroom related deaths. and MOST of the amanitas that are safe to trip with are grown naturally in Europe. If you eat one in like New England or something like that..... Most likely you will get a BIG headeache and barf your guts out.

 

dont do it kid, life's worth it!

 

The white spots are created by flaky scales on the red head of the mushroom, the mushroom can have more or less of these depending on the variety of mushroom in the family and the environment. Personally I would never eat Fly Agaric, it is a poisonous mushroom that must be treated with a great deal of respect and understanding. The amount of toxins is also unpredictable. DO NOT munch these as if they were psilocybin mushrooms, they are very different.

 

You'd have to be fucking blind or a total moron to mistake a mature amanita muscaria with anything else. These are the most recognizable mushrooms in the world.
The deadly amanitas are the pure white Amanita virosa (destroying angel) or olive green (Amanita phalloides), which contain amatoxins. Amatoxins cause death after 6-8 days of intense pain, liver and kidney faliure, and muscle damage. http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap40.html
The brown fly agaric (Amanita regalis) can be mistaken for a amanita pantherina but the only difference between these two is their potency. A. regalis is somewhat less potent than A. muscaria, while A. panthera is more potent. Remember that the spots may fall off in heavy rain.
Amanitas acount for only a small portion of poisonings, muscarine poisoning is usually due to mushrooms of the inocybe and clitocybe species. The amount of muscarine in amanita muscaria is miniscule. Some amanitas are edible fex. amanita rubiscens.
The way to reduce discomfort and increase potency of amanita muscaria is to dry the mushroom, thereby converting the ibotenic acid to muscimole.