Friday, September 3, 2010

What Kind of Mushroom??

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Found this mushroom in the hills about 11 miles north of Selawik, AK. Anyone know what kind they are?? 66°45'39.20"N 160° 9'39.92"W


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6 comments:

bea's blog said...

This seems to be a toadstool - don't eat them. They grow here as well!
Lovely weekend to you
Beatrice

TwoYaks said...

Looks like Fly Agaric. Yeah, don't eat them.

Cheryl Twobears said...

http://www.somashamans.com/gallery.html

other commenters spot on (ha, no pun intended.) cheryl

Lisa said...

Fly Agaric, I just did a post of one also :)
http://ak365.blogspot.com/2010/08/fly-agaric.html

Allmycke said...

Ys, Fly Agaric, and it's poisonous. Iet is said that the Vikings used them to get high on...

Meandering Michael said...

The commenters have it right. Interestingly enough, there's a theory that that kind of mushroom has its world-wide origins in your neck of the woods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria