I was told when I was little that mushrooms with white gills are usually poisonous. Most of the Amanita family have this feature, and also this dense fringing membranes, though not as full on as the stem on this one. Many of those species are symbiotes with the roots of pine trees, notably Muscaria likes Pinus Radiata, you can find the red and white spotty shrooms in most plantation pine forests across the world.
Beautiful photo though, I love fungi, my favourite family of the tree of life <3
You are right, it is in a pine forest and some mushrooms of this family are poisonous, but some are perfectly ok. I'm not sure about this one though. Anyway, beautiful!
Oh, they are for sure beautiful. And the red ones (and yellow) aren't that poisonous, they only contain stuff that causes anticholinergic effects, ie, delusions and hallucinations, but most likely won't kill you, and their effect is greater if you gently toast them.
But unless you want to see people who aren't there and other such things, best to avoid the whole family, and they all have white gills. The pure white ones have a poison in them that takes 3 days for the liver to metabolise, at which point you drop dead of liver failure.
So be careful, never eat anything you aren't 110% confident is a species you know to be edible. Most of them are! Most are just not very tasty anyhow.
