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Mushroom poisoning is usually the result of ingestion of wild mushrooms after misidentification of a toxic mushroom as an edible species. The most common reason for this misidentification is a close resemblance in terms of color and general morphology of the toxic mushrooms species with edible species.
These toxic mushrooms resemble several edible species (most notably Caesar's mushroom and the straw mushroom) commonly consumed by humans, increasing the risk of accidental poisoning. Amatoxins , the class of toxins found in these mushrooms, are thermostable : they resist changes due to heat, so their toxic effects are not reduced by cooking.
The genus Amanita was first published with its current meaning by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1797. [1] Under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Persoon's concept of Amanita, with Amanita muscaria (L.) Pers. as the type species, has been officially conserved against the older Amanita Boehm (1760), which is considered a synonym of Agaricus L. [2]
A. muscaria poisoning has occurred in young children and in people who ingested the mushrooms for a hallucinogenic experience, [21] [54] [55] or who confused it with an edible species. A. muscaria contains several biologically active agents, at least one of which, muscimol , is known to be psychoactive .
Pocahontas (d.1617) while it is not known what she died from poisoning is one theory. Yamada Nagamasa (d. 1630), Japanese adventurer; Marcy Clay (d. 1665), English thief and highwayrobber; Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740), ate poisonous mushrooms; Johann Schobert (d. 1767), German composer; ate poisonous mushrooms believing them to be ...
During several lengthy sojourns in Huautla and environs, the Wassons studied the use of the mushrooms in detail and compared it with descriptions of Aztec mushroom use as described in the records of the Spanish inquisition. They understood this as a potential survival of an otherwise incredibly old tradition involving the use of sacred ...
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This is the basis for the common recommendation to slice in half all puffball-like mushrooms picked when mushroom hunting. Mushroom hunters recommend that people know how to recognize both the death cap and the destroying angel in all of their forms before collecting any white gilled mushroom for consumption. [citation needed]