Flying Garic? Flyer Garik? Fly Agraic! - Amanita muscaria
- JMelitus
- Dec 5, 2016
- 1 min read
Gotta love these mushrooms!
Not to eat or to fish from, but there ain't many easier to spot, identify or to aid in relining one's stomach.
The white dots on the pileus (the head of the shroom) are actually parts of the far escaped volva also known as the remnant of the universal veil, biology aside this looks like a egg shaped bulb at the base of the stem (or stipe... sorry).
Although now commonly described as poisonous this species has been eaten for centuries. After parboiling the flesh the toxins within are weakened, and is enjoyed this way in parts of Europe, Asia and North America.
This mushroom has also been enjoyed traditionally for its principal psychoactive constituent muscimol as an entheogen (which apparently means "generating the divine within" thanks Wiki). Muscimol, for those who are interested, works as a selective agonist for the GABAA receptors oftern causing sedative-hypnotic and dissociative psychoactivity, i.e trip BALLS.
Not only a pretty mushroom but also a strange choice for appearances in children's literature.
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