well, i think the fly agarics are ready to spring forth from beneath the pine trees around here... yellowish to yellow-orange with white flecks...
pluck, rinse, peel the skin, & dry the peel...

I guess you are refering tothe southeast USA.

In the PNW they do not appear until late September-early October

boomer2

Ohio, near Lake Erie...

Ah there we go.... this was a/the species I inquired about years ago to try and find out if I got spores, if I could naturalize them in a pine forest or not. I assume if they grow as far north as the Great Lakes, that surely they would grow here.

Since this is an 'old world' shroom with loads of lore surrounding it, I have always been interested in it. Well, that with a near-tie but just shy to be secondly: I think they are among the most visually stunning specimens. I've never partaken of them though - and so this business about peeling the skin and drying is new to me. I made the assumption that like other mushrooms, they were ingested entirely.... but it seems not the case? If they are peeled - doesn't that then leave all the more use for the cap for acquiring spore prints and even recycling the non-skin sections back into the earth for natural compost?