Cecilia's ringless mushrooms

It can become that faded from the well-recognized red color of muscaria? Wow, that's something to keep in mind, thanks for that info Alex!

http://eol.org/pages/2866150/overview - another site for good informations about A muscaria

even if it was my own suggestion, i'm beginning to doubt: about the ceciliae. in netherland ceciliae is named : "prachtamanit" (roughly translated --> splendor/magnificence/glory-amanit). the english/american name says much more than the dutch. i get disturb about the "ringless" although there is clearly one. therefore i think it could/should be another species, again a suggestion: could it be a color-faded A. muscaria. sometimes those actuel red-cap mushroom come as yellow or orange. when the mushroom are still standing there, try to determinate it through informations from the internet, but to make it easier: you can look just for the species, the genus amanita should be right. AND the muscaria is a mushroom who is in symbiose with pine-trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria)! good luck (ps --> european old latin name : amanita strangulata - nothing to do with strangulated. Other names: Amanita - inaurata, strangulata or ceciliae ( new one) --- prachtamanit (dutch)- Snakeskin Grisette (eng)---> while i was writing this i got conviced, that i maked a mistake, and this should be an amanita muscaria. sorry for before

Amanitas... so amazing, yet you have to watch out for them. To me, they're great to take pictures of, but I wouldn't think about picking anything with a volva and annulus until getting more tools to ID them (i.e. better microscope, Meltzer's reactant, chemicals, etc.) But they do make your walkway look amazing. :)

Yes..your right Alex.. My mushrooms come from a supermarket. I prosume Greg's mushrooms to. :)

I agree with Alex. They look like Amanitas to me, with the flakes on top and the present annulus and volva. Very pretty, but I wouldn't even consider picking them.

i would never eat a mushroom , just on suggestion out of the internet. when you're not sure yourself, let him stand where he is. the SUGGESTION can be wrong, because over internet/pictures you can't identify smell and touch (also important). here will it just go through visual identifications/suggestion. by the way looks a little bit as an amanita ceciliae (A. inaurata/strangulata) with the grey flakes.

They look huge.! very nice to have them in your garden. and yes, especially don't eat after ID'n ;-)