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Turbinellus floccosus, commonly known as the scaly vase, or sometimes the shaggy, scaly, or woolly chanterelle, is a cantharelloid mushroom of the family Gomphaceae native to Asia and North America. It was known as Gomphus floccosus until 2011, [ 1 ] when it was found to be only distantly related to the genus's type species, G. clavatus .
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A drawing on the lower side of the sporocarp of G. applanatum. A peculiarity of this fungus lies in its use as a drawing medium for artists. [13] When the fresh white pore surface is rubbed or scratched with a sharp implement, dark brown tissue under the pores is revealed, resulting in visible lines and shading that become permanent once the fungus is dried.
Another example of mushrooms in Mayan culture deals with their codices, some of which might have depicted hallucinogenic mushrooms. [3] Other examples of mushroom usage in art from various cultures include the Pegtymel petroglyphs of Russia and Japanese Netsuke figurines. [1] Examples of mushrooms being depicted in contemporary art are also ...
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Galerina is a genus of small brown-spore saprobic mushroom-bearing fungi, with over 300 species found throughout the world from the far north to remote Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The genus is most noted for some extremely poisonous species which are occasionally confused with hallucinogenic species of Psilocybe .
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Several regional names appear to be linked with this connotation, meaning the "mad" or "fool's" version of the highly regarded edible mushroom Amanita caesarea. Hence there is oriol foll "mad oriol" in Catalan , mujolo folo from Toulouse , concourlo fouolo from the Aveyron department in Southern France, ovolo matto from Trentino in Italy.