This summer there was a very unusal amount of rain in New England and that produced a VERY unusual amount of fugi all over the place. My neighbors have been digging them out of their lawns - I didn't bother to mow this summer so I didn't have that problem, or rather I had lots of mushrooms but I decided not to consider it a problem. This is not a photo from my backyard, it is from the woods in New Hampshire where we were mountain biking. The mushrooms are Amanita Virsoa, the angle of death, the only really poisonos mushroom which grows in this area, but it's a doozy. According to it's victims, it tastes great, and they feel fine for the first 24 hours after eating it. By the time they start experiencing unpleasant symptoms, the mushroom's toxins have already attached and destroyed major internal organs and it is too late to do anything about it. The mushrooms main characteristic is it's beautiful pure white color (although sometimes it has a green cap) with a veil and a blub. So here's a tip: Don't eat any pure white mushrooms. It is also the cousin of the delicious Amanita Cesaria and the halucinogenic Amanita Muscaria. I haven't seen any in the woods of NH for quite a few years, but on this mountain biking trip I saw TONS. I also saw the Muscaria, known as Soma the divine mushroom of the gods, but unfortunately no Amanita Cesaria (haven't seen that one in years) or any of my other favorite eating mushrooms.
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