Outdoors

TheReview Wednesday, October 23, 1991 — ‘Alot

Autumn is upon us. The season
of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
migrating birds, spawning salmon,
the incredible be-jewelled webs of
orb-weaving spiders, plump fat-
laden bears and handsome garter
snakes seeking out winter quarters,
the World Series.

And mushrooms.

Our photo today features one of
the “destroying angels,” Amanita
muscaria, undoubtedly the most
colorful member of the group.

Though defintely poisonous and

ever to be banned as an acceptable
subject for gustatory experiment,
fortunately, like the conspicuously
striped skunk, this mushroom car-
les warning signals.
- The cap is characteristically
bright red or orange which usually
shades into yellowish at the mar-
gins and bears series of conspicu-
ous white wart-like particles on its
otherwise smooth, polished sur-
face.

It varies in size from three to a
dozen inches across and sports
alabaster-white gills and stem.

Dangerous and delicious mushrooms

The stem is swollen at the base
and bears a readily recognized
white fluffy ring. The subject of
our photo was found in the shade
under conifers, probably its most
preferred habitat in our region.

Amanita muscaria, like other
members of the group, is envel-
oped at the early stage in a wrap-
per-like envelope called the uni-
versal veil.

As these buttons force their way
up from the soil and into the air,
the veil breaks leaving half in the
earth as a sort of cup, or volva.

The other half forms a ring
around the stem as well as the
warts on the surface of the cap.

Why “destroying angels?” I
suspect that we are all aware of the
fact that in the world of people,
exceptionally attractive and beau-
tiful babes with angelic figures
have been known on occasion to
figure in the destruction of the
careers of kings, princes and even
aspiring politicians. -

Remember Cleopatra and Helen

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Destro

of Troy?

Extremely pulchritudinous
members of the Amanita group
have in numerous instances dest-
royed unwary individuals who
chanced to include these
mushrooms in their diet.

Several Amanita species are
very poisonous, some more viru-
lent than others. The type in our
photo has long been known as the
“fly agaric’’ since it has been
thought that concoctions prepared
from its tissues may be used as a
potent killer of pesky flies.

It was originally thought that the
muscarine found in several species
of Amanita was the main toxic
agent affecting consumers of these
fungi.

However, it has been discovered
by very careful researchers that the
symptoms resulting from eating
these mushrooms are due to ibote-
nic acid and muscimol, two
closely related compounds
(McKenny, Stuntz and Ammirati,
1987.)

Nevertheless, continue to enjoy
those many harmless and delicious
species which you can positively
identify.

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