Fly agaric mushroom in English. Also called Magic Mushroom :)

Thats a cool looking mushroom

Dawn

In our woods it's called the fly amanita.

Deadly poisonous, I'm told.

Al

not sure thats the magic mushroom of english folklore as the very fine fly agaric you have here is deadly poisonous!

Amanita agaricus, lovely colour but poisonous.

CP

There is no such thing as Amanita agaricus. Amanita is a genus of mushrooms, all poisonous, some very dangerous, others merely psychotropic. Agaricus is different genus of mushrooms.

I'm not going to guarantee an ID, but this looks like Amanita muscaria which is widely known as the psychotropic magic mushroom. Although several other Amanita species are extremely poisonous they don't look much like A. muscaria. The real look-alikes, some of which are also quite poisonous, are in different genera.

Hi there. It's a lovely mushroom, whatever it is. I thought that all the 'magic mushrooms' were psilocybes, not amanitas, which are very poisonous. We don't have any of the really nice colorful mushrooms in this dry segment of the US.

Kate