Tag: fly agaric

Mushrooms of The Elders Scrolls Part One: Fly Amanita

By Melanie Andromidas

The Fly Amanita, or Amanita Muscaria, is one mushroom of The Elder Scrolls that is a real mushroom, so I thought it would be interesting to compare the attributes of the video game version of Fly Amanita to the real-world counterpart. There are different versions of the mushroom found throughout The Elder Scrolls games, so we’re using the Fly Amanita found in Skyrim.

Do You Know Your Mushrooms? Let’s Play a Game

By Melanie Andromidas

With mushroom foraging coming more into season we’ve been talking about education being a good thing before eating mushrooms. I’m sure many of you know at least some of the poisonous mushrooms to avoid, so let’s play a game. I’m going to post a series of pictures. You try to guess if they’re poisonous or not, then click on the picture to open the link and see if you’re right. Ready?