>>1144307Macros are great because you show them to others and they freak out with the biggest ones, but they really don't have that much meat, most of it is the gills and the stalk is too hard to cook. They're still great to eat though along with the most common agaricus, low tier boletus species and other edible macrolepiota look-alikes. Even though it's my first year I'm very happy with all I've had by now.
I found A. Pantherinas in high mountains, above 1000m above sea level. I was awestruck the first time I looked at them. They're really beautiful.
>I'm assuming you are gathering them for recreational use and not culinary?;^). If I had found many Muscarias I would have experimented with cooking and preserving them but my original idea was to consume them for recreational use but I've been stalling the occasion for a while because as I said there isn't much information about Panther caps which are the only ones I finally found. My panther caps have already been dried and powdered.
> I wrote a really nice paper on the different preps you can do and the chemical dynamics involved, if you'd like to read it.>Amanita pantherina is actually safer (though sometimes more potent) than A. muscaria. At least, the European species is.Yes, I'd be very interested in reading that, although I find it hard to believe Panther Mushrooms are safer than Muscarias, considering they have the reputation and have been proven to be stronger, even here in Europe. Or at least that's what I've read everywhere, in some guides they even classified it as lethal but of course that's bs. I'll be grateful for any info you have about pantherinas, they're not as studied as Muscarias and I'm very hesitant if I can't find more info on that.
By the way, your Muscarias look weird, have you peeled their skins? I watched a video of some guy that uses them too but he says that you should dry and powder all of the mushroom or at least the caps. Isn't using only the skin a little wasteful?
