Can Anyone Here Identify This Mushroom?

[Mistwalker]

Can anyone here positively identify this mushroom? The cap is roughly 2 inches in diameter. Does anyone know for sure if it is or is not poisonous to the touch?

 

[Evolute]

Possibly a waxy cap of some sort – hard to tell from just these photos.

In any case, there is no such thing as a mushroom that is poisonous to the touch.

 

[Mistwalker]

Possibly a waxy cap of some sort – hard to tell from just these photos.

In any case, there is no such thing as a mushroom that is poisonous to the touch.

Good...I was out shooting photos today and took my youngest (about to turn 5) with me. She watched me take these photos. I told her not to touch any of the mushrooms in the area. While I was taking another photo she tried to hand me pieces of another identical mushroom and her hands were stained yellow. I immediately washed her hands with all of the water we had on us... but couldn't get all the stain off... and then proceeded to nearly give myself a heart attack in the process of getting her, myself, and all my gear back up the side of the mountain to the truck as fast as possible to get her to where I could properly wash her up.

 

[Jim malone]

The yellow stuff are just spores, they fall out from between the gills on the underside of the cap when you pick them up. No need to worry. The spores are so tiny they stain like hell.
The most dangerous are the "Amanita's" they account for 95% of the poisonings.
list for North America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_farinosa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_gemmata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_regalis (alaska)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_abrupta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_smithiana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_bisporigera VERY DANGEROUS !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_ocreata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_porphyria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalotus_olearius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebeloma_crustuliniforme

print the pics on a paper and laminate it if you go into the woods.
These mushroom are only dangerous when ingested. The spores are harmless.
Because you have young kids i suggest that you buy activated carbon suspension, and have the phone number of your local anti poison centre with you.

In the U.S.

Actidose-Aqua
Charcoal
Diarrest
Di-Gon II
Donnagel
EZ-Char
Kaodene NN
Kaolinpec
Kaopectate
Kaopek
Kapectolin
Kerr Insta-Char
Activated charcoal is used in the emergency treatment of certain kinds of poisoning. It helps prevent the poison from being absorbed from the stomach into the body.

 

[DOC-CANADA]

Sorry mistwalker, I don't know anything about mushrooms (except True and False Tinder fungus). Don't know, don't care.

I did want to mention, though, there are other things that can affect your daughter from just touching them. You obviously know about Poison Ivy, Stinging Nettle, etc. but there is also a concern with a group of plants called Spurges (Euphorbia spp.).

A quote from Deadly Harvest, John M. Kingsbury, Holt Paperback, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1972, ISBN# 0-03-091479-5, page 19: "Leafy spurge, sun spurge, caper spurge, spotted spurge, snow-on-the-mountain, and other spurges contain sap acrid enough to burn the skin under certain conditions. The juice of snow-on-the-mountain has been used in place of an iron for branding cattle in Texas. The burn produced by the irritant properties of the sap of these plants is like that produced by an acid. Some parts of the body - the tissue about the eyes, for example - are more easily burned than others."

I also read somewhere that if you got it in your eyes, it could blind you. I'll try to find the text.

I bring this up because little kids (and us big kids, too ) have a tendency of touching things that look interesting, and because I saw it for the first time on a hike I did last week. Please excuse the poor picture.

Deady Harvest also mentions that "the sap of some buttercup species can burn the skin as does that of the spurges." (page 90)

Doc, the 'Doom and Gloom' monger

 

[Mistwalker]

The yellow stuff are just spores, they fall out from between the gills on the underside of the cap when you pick them up. No need to worry. The spores are so tiny they stain like hell.
The most dangerous are the "Amanita's" they account for 95% of the poisonings.
list for North America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_farinosa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_gemmata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_regalis (alaska)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_abrupta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_smithiana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_bisporigera VERY DANGEROUS !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_ocreata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_porphyria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalotus_olearius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebeloma_crustuliniforme

print the pics on a paper and laminate it if you go into the woods.
These mushroom are only dangerous when ingested. The spores are harmless.
Because you have young kids i suggest that you buy activated carbon suspension, and have the phone number of your local anti poison centre with you.

In the U.S.

Actidose-Aqua
Charcoal
Diarrest
Di-Gon II
Donnagel
EZ-Char
Kaodene NN
Kaolinpec
Kaopectate
Kaopek
Kapectolin
Kerr Insta-Char
Activated charcoal is used in the emergency treatment of certain kinds of poisoning. It helps prevent the poison from being absorbed from the stomach into the body.

Thank you very much for that. I saved all of those pictures just now and will get them printed off. Luckily almost all of them were very clear, very large files so the detail is good.

I also copied that list and will look at the pharmacy tomorrow.

Sorry mistwalker, I don't know anything about mushrooms (except True and False Tinder fungus). Don't know, don't care.

I did want to mention, though, there are other things that can affect your daughter from just touching them. You obviously know about Poison Ivy, Stinging Nettle, etc. but there is also a concern with a group of plants called Spurges (Euphorbia spp.).

A quote from Deadly Harvest, John M. Kingsbury, Holt Paperback, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1972, ISBN# 0-03-091479-5, page 19: "Leafy spurge, sun spurge, caper spurge, spotted spurge, snow-on-the-mountain, and other spurges contain sap acrid enough to burn the skin under certain conditions. The juice of snow-on-the-mountain has been used in place of an iron for branding cattle in Texas. The burn produced by the irritant properties of the sap of these plants is like that produced by an acid. Some parts of the body - the tissue about the eyes, for example - are more easily burned than others."

I also read somewhere that if you got it in your eyes, it could blind you. I'll try to find the text.

I bring this up because little kids (and us big kids, too ) have a tendency of touching things that look interesting, and because I saw it for the first time on a hike I did last week. Please excuse the poor picture.

Deady Harvest also mentions that "the sap of some buttercup species can burn the skin as does that of the spurges." (page 90)

Doc, the 'Doom and Gloom' monger

Thanks Doc, I do not consider sharing knowledge spreading doom and gloom :thumbup: