>>1144846I didn't peel them, but I went ahead and wiped them down with a cloth to clean off the dirt, most of these were half-buried buttons. It took the veil tissue with it (the warts). I love buttons the best for soup and sautee. Great texture, almost like a delicate radish.
There isn't much of a reason to separate the skins or warts, they don't have any higher potency than the rest of the cap as far as I have read, though there is an obscene amount of misinformation floating around on that topic.
>Hurr the warts on the cap are strychnine>It's deadly unless you remove the wartsetc.
So I say that A. pantherina is safer in the sense that while it may be more potent in its muscimol content, it is waaay lower in its muscarine content. This was shown by one of the original papers detailing the compounds present in most of the muscari-oid species, I can dig up the link if you'd like. Muscarine is the component in Amanita muscaria that while only present in miniscule amounts, can still cause negative side effects such as spasms, drooling/sweating/tearing up. The guides that list it as deadly are wrong, there have been no well recorded and confirmed deaths from muscaria/pantherina/gemmata/aprica in the past 100 years. That statement coming from NAMA. LD50 is relatively high, and with muscaria the lethal dose is estimated at over 10 caps. Though potency is variable by region, age, substrate, and other factors.
Here is my writeup, basically just a compilation of the drugs and dynamics with manipulating them. I wrote this for a mushroom forum I am an admin of.
>https://pastebin.com/n4ijsXzZ 