Anamita Mushrooms

[Spokerider]

I've got those damned Anamita Pantherina mushrooms growing in my yard, and I caught my pup with a button cap of one in her mouth. Don't know if she actually ingested any of it as she's not displaying any neuro deficits. You know pups, they'll eat almost anything........ Every couple of days I'm out digging them up and destroying them before she can get to them.

So, for you dog owners out there, and those with children or grand kids, if you have anamita's growing in your yard dig'em up and get rid of them.

[Marc]

Spokerider, could you post up a picture of what they look like? Are they dangerous to dogs? I've got afew mushrooms growing in my back yard as well but never seen any effect on the dogs. I've got a femaleand she eats everything she can get her chops on so it would be nice to know what they look like.

Marc.

[Bow Walker]

I'd be very interested to, as my pup is constantly chewing on something or other.

[Spokerider]

Here is an Animita Pantherina mushroom. They grow under conifers. They can also be a lighter tan color and have fewer white "flakes" on the cap.
Deadly.

[Bow Walker]

Thanks Mark - appreciate the headsup.

[Monashee]

Apparently mushrooms that are poisonous to people are not necessarily harmful to animals , so I have read. Stranger yet is that some people are unaffected after eating poisonous mushrooms.... exactly why no one seems to know.

We have many amanitas on our property in the spring and fall, they add a bit of color :/

[boxhitch]

We have many amanitas on our property in the spring and fall, they add a bit of color :/

Hallucinogenic ?

[Ioneth]

Most if not all Amanita are Hallucinogenic some more deadly than others.

Your mushroom could also be this one Amanita muscaria

[spreerider]

To kill a mushroom patch you have to turn the soil with a spade as the mushrooms are just a fruting body of a network of small "roots" i cant for the life of me recall what the "roots" are called but if you just pick the fruit you dont kill the tree just like apples.
if you turn the soil and expose the "roots" to air they will die and your mushrooms wont come back.

[Dirty]

The "roots" are actually called hyphae.